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ANDERSON v. MARATHON PETROLEUM CO.

No. 85-3016.

801 F.2d 936 (1986)

LaDonna ANDERSON as Executor of the Estate of Donald Anderson, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. MARATHON PETROLEUM COMPANY, f/k/a Marathon Oil Company, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided September 16, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Brown, Ronald Tulin, Ltd., Charleston, Ill., for plaintiff-appellant.

Gary E. Snodgrass, Brown James & Rabitt, P.C., St. Louis, Mo., for defendant-appellee.

Before BAUER and POSNER, Circuit Judges, and SWYGERT, Senior Circuit Judge.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

This diversity personal-injury suit pits two residents of Illinois (Donald Anderson, who died while the case was on appeal, and his widow) against a nonresident corporation, Marathon Petroleum Company. The district judge granted a directed verdict for Marathon at the close of the plaintiffs' case on the ground that the plaintiffs had failed to show a breach of duty by Marathon.

Anderson was...

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