DEERE & CO. v. FINLEY

No. 79-1638.

103 Ill. App.3d 774 (1981)

431 N.E.2d 1201

DEERE & COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. MORGAN M. FINLEY, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Defendant-Appellee. — (INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER COMPANY et al., Intervenors-Defendants-Appellees.)

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District (3rd Division).

Opinion filed December 30, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. Coffey, of Rothschild, Barry & Myers, of Chicago, for appellant.

Bernard Carey, State's Attorney, of Chicago (Paul P. Biebel, Jr., and Susan Condon, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for appellee Morgan M. Finley.

Howard W. Clement and William A. Webb, both of Hume, Clement, Brinks, William & Olds, Ltd., of Chicago, for appellee International Harvester Company.

Phillip H. Mayer and Raymond I. Suekoff, both of Chicago (Leydig, Voit, Osann, Mayer & Holt, Ltd., and Suekoff & Silverman, of counsel), for appellee Sperry Rand Corporation.


Reversed and remanded.

PRESIDING JUSTICE RIZZI delivered the opinion of the court:

This is an action seeking a writ of mandamus from the circuit court to compel Morgan M. Finley, clerk of the circuit court of Cook County, to allow plaintiff, Deere & Company, to inspect and copy the contents of the court file in a previously dismissed suit between International Harvester Company and Sperry Rand Corporation, both intervenors in this action. The trial...

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