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SEARS, ROEBUCK & COMPANY v. TRAVELERS INDEMNITY COMPANY

No. 85 C 8700.

628 F.Supp. 122 (1986)

SEARS, ROEBUCK & COMPANY, Plaintiff, v. The TRAVELERS INDEMNITY COMPANY, Defendant.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, E.D.

February 6, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael R. Turoff, Adele Rapport, Arnstein, Gluck, Lehr, Barron & Milligan, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff.

Marthe C. Purmal, Chicago, Ill., for defendant.

ORDER

BUA, District Judge.

Travelers Indemnity Company's (Travelers) motion to stay is denied.

Generally, federal courts have an obligation to exercise federal jurisdiction. The existence of a state court action is no bar to proceeding concurrently on the same matter in federal court. However, it is well settled that a district court is "under no compulsion to exercise that jurisdiction where the controversy...

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