OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT DISC CORP. v. SANGAMO CONST.

Nos. 81-1222, 81-1273 and 81-1327.

686 F.2d 498 (1982)

OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT DISC CORPORATION, Plaintiff-Intervening Cross-Defendant-Appellee, and Universal Development Corporation, Intervening Plaintiff and Intervening Cross-Plaintiff-Appellee, v. SANGAMO CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, INC., Defendant-Appellant. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT DISC CORPORATION, Plaintiff-Intervening Cross-Defendant-Appellee, and Universal Development Corporation, Intervening Plaintiff and Intervening Cross-Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SANGAMO CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, INC., Defendant-Appellee. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT DISC CORPORATION, Plaintiff-Intervening Cross-Defendant-Appellant, and Universal Development Corporation, Intervening Cross-Plaintiff and Intervening Cross-Plaintiff-Appellee, v. SANGAMO CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, INC., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 10, 1982.

Rehearing Denied September 7, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerold S. Solovy, Michael J. Rovell, Barry Levenstam, Dorothy B. Zimbrakos, Jenner & Block, Chicago, Ill., for Sangamo Const. Co., Inc.

Gary Green, Philadelphia, Pa., John F. Bomster, Adler, Pollock & Sheenan, Inc., Providence, R.I., for Overseas Development Disc Corp. and Universal Development Corp.

Before CUMMINGS, Chief Judge, and SPRECHER and WOOD, Circuit Judges.


CUMMINGS, Chief Judge.

This lawsuit began in deceptively simple fashion in October of 1977. Overseas Development Disc Corporation ("Overseas") sued to collect a brokerage fee from Sangamo Construction Company ("Sangamo"). Overseas asserted either a contractual or a restitutionary right to be paid for helping Sangamo secure a contract with the government of Kuwait to build a motorway in that country. Federal jurisdiction was...

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