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BACKES v. VALSPAR CORP.

No. 85-1630.

783 F.2d 77 (1986)

Royal BACKES, as father and next friend of Michelle L. Backes, Kathy L. Backes, and Curt A. Backes, all minors, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The VALSPAR CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided February 3, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard P. Reese, Jr., Reese, Reese & Bagley, Rockford, Ill., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Leo G. Stern, Fredrickson & Byron, P.A., Minneapolis, Minn., for defendant-appellee.

Before CUDAHY and POSNER, Circuit Judges, and GRANT, Senior District Judge.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

The district court granted summary judgment for the defendant, Valspar, in this diversity tort suit brought in 1981 by Royal Backes on behalf of his three children, and dismissed the complaint. Backes has appealed. We must decide whether the district judge was right to find that Valspar had carried its burden of proving that there was no genuine issue of material fact. Fed.R.Civ.P. 56(c).

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