EDELMAN v. BELCO TITLE & ESCROW, LLC

No. 13-2363.

754 F.3d 389 (2014)

Steven EDELMAN, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. BELCO TITLE & ESCROW, LLC, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided April 25, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Drey Alan Cooley , Attorney, Capes Sokol Goodman & Sarachan, Clayton, MO, Mark E. Goodman , Attorney, Capes, Sokol, Goodman & Sarachan, St. Louis, MO, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Daniel Konicek , Thomas J. Long , Attorney, Konicek & Dillon, P.C., Geneva, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before FLAUM and EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judges, and GRIESBACH, District Judge.


FLAUM, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiffs in this diversity case are lenders who lost a lot of money on a bad real-estate investment. They sued the transaction's escrowee for a breach of fiduciary duty under Illinois law. The plaintiffs argued that because the escrowee signed a form stating that it was acting as the lenders' "agent" for the purposes of the escrow and closing, the escrowee should have communicated to the plaintiffs that they were not going to receive the...

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