GETTO v. CITY OF CHICAGO

No. 53203.

86 Ill.2d 39 (1981)

426 N.E.2d 844

CHARLES A. GETTO, Appellee, v. THE CITY OF CHICAGO et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied October 19, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William R. Quinlan, Corporation Counsel, of Chicago (Robert R. Retke, Edmund Hatfield, and Philip L. Bronstein, Assistant Corporation Counsel, of counsel), for appellant City of Chicago.

James R. Bryant, Jr., L. Bow Pritchett, R. Dean Irwin, and Michael J. Karson, of Chicago, for appellant Illinois Bell Telephone Company.

Arthur C. Thorpe, Stewart H. Diamond, and Jack M. Siegel (Klein, Thorpe & Jenkins, Ltd.; Ancel, Glink, Diamond & Murphy, P.C.; and Siegel & Stonesifer, Ltd., of counsel), for appellants City of Evanston, et al.

Sidney Z. Karasik and Leonard E. Handmacher, of Chicago, for appellee.

Richard G. Ferguson, Laurence D. Lasky, Paul W. Schroeder, and William P. Suriano, of Chicago (Isham, Lincoln & Beale, of counsel), for amicus curiae Commonwealth Edison Company.

Robert A. Helman, Susan Getzendanner, Stephen J. Mattson, David K. Staub, and Richard J. Klein, of Mayer, Brown & Platt, of Chicago, for amicus curiae Northern Illinois Gas Company.


Orders affirmed.

MR. JUSTICE WARD delivered the opinion of the court:

This case presents the second interlocutory appeal filed by the Illinois Bell Telephone Company (Bell) and the city of Chicago arising out of a class action suit brought against both parties in July of 1977 by Charles A. Getto. In this suit, filed on behalf of Getto and all persons similarly situated, the plaintiff challenged the method employed by the defendants in calculating the city...

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