GREATAMERICA LEASING CORP. v. COZZI IRON & METAL INC.

No. 99 C 3343.

76 F.Supp.2d 875 (1999)

GREATAMERICA LEASING CORPORATION, Plaintiff, Counterclaim Defendant, v. COZZI IRON & METAL INC., Defendant, Counterclaim Plaintiff.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, Eastern Division.

November 22, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David J. Chizewer, Goldberg, Kohn, Bell, Black, Rosenbloom & Moritz, Ltd., Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff.

Mark A. LaRose, Mark A. LaRose, Ltd., Chicago, IL, Francesco E. DiVito, Law Office of Frank E. DiVito, Chicago, IL, for Defendant.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

BUCKLO, District Judge.

I here consider whether a company that got in over its head in a business area about which it knew little should be held to the express terms of some plain and simple lease contracts that it signed. I conclude that it should so be held. Cozzi Iron & Metal, Inc. ("Cozzi"), an Illinois corporation with its principal place of business in Chicago, Illinois, leased more copying equipment than it...

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