WILLIAMS v. CITY OF CHICAGO

No. 76-877.

370 N.E.2d 119 (1977)

54 Ill. App.3d 974

12 Ill.Dec. 496

Mildred WILLIAMS, Plaintiff-Appellee, Cross-Appellant, v. CITY OF CHICAGO, a Municipal Corporation, and Jimmie V. Bryant, Defendants-Appellants, Cross-Appellees, Arbyle Johnson, Exchange National Bank of Chicago, a national banking association, as Trustee under Trust No. 21443, Samuel Gershman, and Jay C. Gershman, Defendants.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Fifth Division.

November 18, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William R. Quinlan, Corp. Counsel, Chicago (Daniel R. Pascale and Jerome A. Siegan, Asst. Corp. Counsels, Chicago, of counsel), for defendants-appellants, cross-appellees.

David Alswang, Chicago, for plaintiff-appellee, cross-appellant.


MEJDA, Justice:

Defendants, City of Chicago and Jimmie V. Bryant, appeal from the entry of a default judgment and from an order assessing attorney's fees against them in favor of plaintiff, Mildred Williams. Defendants contend that the trial court abused its discretion in entering a default judgment against them for failure to answer interrogatories, where the answers were later filed and the default order was used to enforce an order for plaintiff's attorney's fees...

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