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OUTBOARD MARINE CORP. v. BABCOCK INDUSTRIES, INC.

No. 96-1925.

106 F.3d 182 (1997)

OUTBOARD MARINE CORPORATION, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. BABCOCK INDUSTRIES, INC., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided February 3, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter C. John, Hedlund & Hanley, Chicago, IL, Warren E. Platt (argued), Ellen J. Waxman, Jonathan F. Weisbard, Alex B. Marconi, Patrick X. Fowler, Martha E. Gibbs, Snell & Wilmer, Phoenix, AZ, Mary P. Benz, Quinlan & Crisham, Chicago, IL, for plaintiff-appellant.

William E. Spizzirri, Kralovec, Marquard, Doyle & Gibbons, Chicago, IL, Michael J. Gibbons, Wheaton, IL, Charles W. Pieterse, Whitman, Breed, Abbott & Morgan, Greenwich, CT, Richard F. Lawler (argued), Pamela C. Holly, Whitman Breed, Abbott & Morgan, Greenwich, CT, for defendant-appellee.

Before POSNER, Chief Judge, and CUDAHY and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.

POSNER, Chief Judge.

A manufacturer of boat engines, Outboard Marine, brought this suit for breach of warranty (a suit governed by Illinois law) against a supplier of cables for its engines, the ACCO division of FKI Industries, formerly known as Babcock Industries. The jury awarded Outboard Marine $4,403,000. Discontented with this verdict, Outboard Marine asked the judge to enter judgment for $12,384,700, or in the alternative to grant a new trial on damages. The...

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