ROSS-BERGER COMPANIES, INC. v. EQUITABLE LIFE ASSUR. SOCIETY OF U.S.

No. 88-2010.

872 F.2d 1331 (1989)

ROSS-BERGER COMPANIES, INC., Successor in Interest to Berger Realty Group, Inc., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. The EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided April 25, 1989.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied June 8, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John D. Lien, Foley & Lardner, Chicago, Ill., for defendant-appellant.

Mitchell S. Goldgehn, Greenberg Keele Lunn & Aronberg, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before POSNER, COFFEY, and RIPPLE, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied June 8, 1989.

RIPPLE, Circuit Judge.

The Ross-Berger Companies, Inc. (Ross-Berger) instituted this diversity action against The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States (Equitable) in order to recover a broker's commission that it earned by procuring a tenant for a building owned by Equitable. After concluding that the doctrine of collateral estoppel precluded Equitable from relitigating two issues relevant...

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