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KOCH v. BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Gen. No. 48,771.

39 Ill. App.2d 51 (1962)

187 N.E.2d 340

Leo Francis Koch, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, a Body Corporate and Politic, Defendant-Appellee.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District, Second Division.

Rehearing denied and opinion modified January 22, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald Page Moore and Frederic D. Houghteling, of Chicago (Overton, Marks, Simons & Houghteling, of counsel), for appellant.

Ralph F. Lesemann and James J. Costello, Jr., and Albert E. Jenner, Jr., Prentice H. Marshall and Holland C. Capper, of Chicago (Thompson, Raymond, Mayer & Jenner, of counsel), for appellee.

MR. PRESIDING JUSTICE BRYANT delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an action for damages for breach of a written employment contract between the plaintiff, an assistant professor of biology, and the defendant, the University of Illinois.

In September of 1955 the plaintiff, Leo Francis Koch, joined the faculty of the University of Illinois as a biologist under an employment contract of two years duration. This contract was renewed in 1957 and again in...

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