HARTFORD ACC. AND INDEM. CO. v. SULLIVAN

Nos. 87-1784, 87-1843.

846 F.2d 377 (1988)

HARTFORD ACCIDENT AND INDEMNITY COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Michael SULLIVAN, Defendant-Third-Party-Plaintiff-Appellee, v. FORD CITY BANK, Third-Party-Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided April 28, 1988.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied July 6, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth R. Gaines, Altheimer & Gray, Chicago, Ill., for appellant.

Stephen B. Diamond, Beeler, Schad & Diamond, P.C., Chicago, Ill., for appellee.

Before POSNER, COFFEY, and EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied July 6, 1988.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

This diversity case presents questions of federal jurisdiction and Illinois tort law in an unseemly setting of bank fraud and attorney misconduct. In the early 1970s Michael Sullivan, a successful real estate lawyer and broker and a stockholder of the Ford City Bank, would refer clients to William Quinn, an officer of the bank, for loans and other bank services. In exchange Quinn would...

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