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LEADFREE ENTERPRISES v. UNITED STATES STEEL CORP.

No. 82-2682.

711 F.2d 805 (1983)

LEADFREE ENTERPRISES, INC., an Iowa corporation, and Larry White, an individual, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES STEEL CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation, Inryco, Inc., a Delaware corporation, and Allied Structural Steel Company, a Delaware corporation, Defendants-Appellees, v. PITTSBURGH TESTING LABORATORY, Third-Party Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 21, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James P. Gokey, John, Flaherty & Gillette, S.C., LaCrosse, Wis., for plaintiffs-appellants.

John A. Hansen, Stafford, Rosenbaum, Rieser & Hansen, Madison, Wis., L.C. Hammond, Jr., Quarles & Brady, Milwaukee, Wis., Bruce L. Bower, Winston & Strawn, Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellees.

Before PELL, and COFFEY, Circuit Judges, and WEIGEL, Senior District Judge.

PELL, Circuit Judge.

In this case we decide whether Wisconsin tort law allows the appellants to recover for lost profits and other purely economic losses caused when a bridge was closed as a result of allegedly defective construction by the appellees.

I. FACTS

The appellees Allied Structural Steel Co. and Inryco, Inc. contracted with Iowa and Wisconsin to construct a bridge over the Mississippi River between Marquette, Iowa and Prairie du Chien,...

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