NORTHWESTERN NAT. INS. CO. v. DONOVAN

Nos. 90-1366 to 90-1369, 90-1377.

916 F.2d 372 (1990)

NORTHWESTERN NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. William F. DONOVAN, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided October 17, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John A. Rothstein, Richard C. Ninneman, Quarles & Brady, Milwaukee, Wis., for plaintiff-appellant.

Stephen E. Kravit, K. Scott Wagner, Kravit, Waisbren & Debruin, Milwaukee, Wis., Martha B. Lawley, Glenda Kirsch, Ryan, Shoss, Sudan, & Lawley, Houston, Tex., for defendants-appellees.

Before POSNER, MANION, and KANNE, Circuit Judges.


POSNER, Circuit Judge.

An insurance company appeals from the dismissal, for want of personal jurisdiction, of five diversity breach of contract suits that it brought in a federal district court in Wisconsin. The principal ground of appeal and the only one we need discuss is that the defendants consented, in a valid forum-selection clause contained in the contract on which the suits are based, to defend the suits in Wisconsin...

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