TRANSCRAFT, INC. v. GALVIN STALMACK KIRSCHNER CLARK

Nos. 93-3684, 94-2717.

39 F.3d 812 (1994)

TRANSCRAFT, INCORPORATED and Cunningham Enterprises, Incorporated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. GALVIN, STALMACK, KIRSCHNER & CLARK, Francis J. Galvin, Jr., and Eric L. Kirschner, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided November 14, 1994.

Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing Denied December 28, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William A. Alexander, Troutt, Alexander, Popit & Warner, Benton, IL, Rodney V. Taylor (argued), Christopher & Taylor, Indianapolis, IN, Frederic C. Sipe, Sipe, Pankow, Han & Free, William L. Schlosser, Indianapolis, IN, Thomas G. Brackman, St. Louis, MO, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Nancy G. Lischer (argued), D. Kendall Griffith, Hinshaw & Culbertson, Chicago, IL, Mark D. Bauman, Brian D. Malkmus, Hinshaw, Culbertson, Moelmann, Hoban & Fuller, Belleville, IL, for defendants-appellants.

Before POSNER, Chief Judge, EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge, and GORDON, District Judge.


Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing En Banc Denied December 28, 1994.

POSNER, Chief Judge.

The appeals in this diversity suit for legal malpractice raise a variety of issues, mainly but not only of causation and of computation of damages. The principal plaintiff, Transcraft Corporation, is a manufacturer of flatbed truck trailers. In 1985 a man named Weekley was driving a semitractor hauling a loaded Transcraft trailer. His wife was in the cab. While Weekley...

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