SHARPE v. JEFFERSON DISTRIBUTING CO.

No. 97-1066.

148 F.3d 676 (1998)

Susan SHARPE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. JEFFERSON DISTRIBUTING CO., Data Genesis Corporation, and Robert A. McMillan, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided June 3, 1998.

Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing Denied June 29, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frederick S. Rhine (argued), Terence J. Moran, J. Eric VanderArend, Peter M. Katsaros, Gessler, Hughes & Socol, Chicago, IL, Jennifer L. Fischer, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Michael J. Howlett, Jr., Allan T. Slagel (argued), Cary E. Donham, Shefsky & Froelich, Chicago, IL, William K. Blanchard, Evanston, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before COFFEY, EASTERBROOK, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing En Banc Denied June 29, 1998.

EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

During 1991 Susan Sharpe and Robert Moroney came up with an idea for computer software useful to insurers' marketing departments. Needing money to turn the idea into a working program, they went looking for a venture capitalist and found Robert McMillan, who committed $1 million to the project. McMillan became the sole shareholder of Data Genesis Corporation, which...

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