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McADAMS v. SMITH

Gen. No. 47,609.

25 Ill. App.2d 237 (1960)

166 N.E.2d 446

Frank J. McAdams, Jr., Appellant, v. Elbert S. Smith, Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Illinois, Appellee.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District, Third Division.

Rehearing denied May 12, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Albert W. Dilling and Kirkpatrick W. Dilling, of Chicago, for respondent-appellant.

Benjamin S. Adamowski, State's Attorney of Cook county, for appellee, Barnabas F. Sears, L.A. Wescott, William A. Cunnea, George S. Lavin, John A. Brown (Francis X. Riley, William W. Winterhoff, Barnabas F. Sears, and W.S. Bodman, of counsel) W.S. Bodman, amici curiae.

JUSTICE FRIEND delivered the opinion of the court.

Respondent, Frank J. McAdams, Jr., seeks to reverse an order of the Circuit Court, entered by Judge Cornelius J. Harrington, adjudicating him guilty of contempt of court, and imposing a sentence of one day in the Cook County jail and a fine of $350. The judgment was entered after a hearing upon a rule to show cause and respondent's answer thereto. The case out of which the contempt proceeding arose was a suit brought...

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