PEOPLE EX REL. DEPT. OF PUBLIC AID v. SANTOS

No. 55770.

92 Ill.2d 120 (1982)

440 N.E.2d 876

THE PEOPLE ex rel. THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC AID, Appellant, v. LEIDA SANTOS et al., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed September 17, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tyrone C. Fahner, Attorney General, of Springfield (William A. Wenzel, Ellen P. Brewin, and Richard D. Grossman, Special Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, of counsel), for the People.

Robert Lehrer, Thomas Johnson, Diane Redleaf, and James Potter, of Chicago, for appellees.


Reversed and remanded.

JUSTICE WARD delivered the opinion of the court:

This appeal is from the circuit court of Cook County's dismissal of three actions filed by the Attorney General for the People ex rel. the Department of Public Aid (the Department). The actions were brought to collect upon promissory notes executed by three public assistance recipients who had been informed by the Department that they had received overpayments of benefits. At the...

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