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JOHNSON v. BURKEN

No. 90-1756.

930 F.2d 1202 (1991)

Donald J. JOHNSON, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Patrick H. BURKEN, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided April 22, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edgar K. Collison, III, Early, Collison, Tousey, Regan & Sullivan, Northbrook, Ill., Esther Joy Schwartz, Stellato & Schumacher, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellee.

Herbert P. Carlson, Gerard Fosco, Iversen, Carlson & Associates, Chicago, Ill., for defendant-appellant.

Before BAUER, Chief Judge, and POSNER and RIPPLE, Circuit Judges.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

In May 1988, Donald Johnson brought suit against Patrick Burken in an Illinois state court for damages arising out of an automobile accident that had occurred in August 1986. At the time of the accident Burken was a sailor stationed at the Great Lakes naval base in Illinois, although he was a domiciliary — and hence, for purposes of federal diversity jurisdiction, a citizen, Galva Foundry...

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