HANLEY v. KUSPER

Nos. 47036, 47117 cons.

61 Ill.2d 452 (1975)

337 N.E.2d 1

FLORENCE K. HANLEY et al., Appellants, v. STANLEY T. KUSPER, JR., County Clerk, et al., Appellees. — CONTINENTAL ILLINOIS NATIONAL BANK AND TRUST COMPANY OF CHICAGO, Appellee, v. STANLEY T. KUSPER, JR., County Clerk, et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied November 21, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kirkland & Ellis, of Chicago (Don H. Reuben, Thomas F. Ging, Shane H. Anderson, and Glenn R. Drury, of counsel), for individual appellants.

Concannon, Dillon, Snook & Morton, of Chicago (William R. Dillon, of counsel), for fiduciary appellants.

Bernard Carey, State's Attorney, of Chicago (Sheldon Gardner, Deputy State's Attorney, and Lorence H. Slutzky and Paul P. Biebel, Jr., Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for appellees.

Chicago Bar Association, of Chicago, and Illinois State Bar Association, of Springfield (James P. Connelly, John T. Mackay, L. Edward Bryant, Jr., Samuel W. Hunt, Jr., Robert M. Farquharson, William P. Sutter, David F. Sterling, James Zartman, David V. Flynn, and J. Robert Barr, of counsel), amici curiae.

Davis & Davis, and Dunn, Brady, Goebel, Ulbrich, Morel and Jacob, both of Bloomington (David Davis IV, Richard T. Dunn and James A. Knecht, of counsel), for amicus curiae Corporate Fiduciaries Association of Southern Illinois.

Bernard Carey, State's Attorney, of Chicago (Sheldon Gardner, Deputy State's Attorney, and Lorence H. Slutzky, David J. Magee, and Paul P. Biebel, Jr., Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for appellants.

Edmund A. Stephan, Robert L. Stern, Wayne W. Whalen, and Robert K. Hagan (Mayer, Brown & Platt, of Chicago, for appellee.

Chicago Bar Association, of Chicago, and Illinois State Bar Association, of Springfield (James P. Connelly, John T. Mackay, L. Edward Bryant, Jr., Samuel W. Hunt, Jr., Robert M. Farquharson, William P. Sutter, David F. Sterling, James Zartman, David V. Flynn, and J. Robert Barr, of counsel), amici curiae.

Davis & Davis, and Dunn, Brady, Goebel, Ulbrich, Morel and Jacob, both of Bloomington (David Davis IV, Richard T. Dunn and James A. Knecht, of counsel), for amicus curiae Corporate Fiduciaries Association of Southern Illinois.


Reversed and remanded.

MR. JUSTICE SCHAEFER delivered the opinion of the court:

In these consolidated cases we are asked to reconsider our decisions in Lake Shore Auto Parts Co. v. Korzen, 49 Ill.2d 137 (1971), and 54 Ill.2d 237 (1973). In the first of those opinions we considered the interpretation and the validity of article IX-A which was added to the Constitution of 1870...

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