IN RE MARRIAGE OF LANDFIELD

Nos. 64865, 64991.

118 Ill.2d 229 (1987)

514 N.E.2d 1005

In re MARRIAGE OF JOY LANDFIELD, Appellee, and GEORGE S. LANDFIELD, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed October 5, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alex Elson, Robert R. Tepper, Karla B. Goldman and Deborah A. Lust, of Rosenthal & Schanfield, of Chicago, for appellant.

Barry A. Schatz, of Kalcheim, Schatz & Berger, and Barth H. Goldberg, of Goldberg & Goldberg, all of Chicago, for appellee.

Davis, Friedman, Zavett, Kane & MacRae, of Chicago (Errol Zavett, of counsel), for amicus curiae Illinois Chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.


Appeal dismissed; cause remanded. Cause remanded.

JUSTICE MORAN delivered the opinion of the court:

The petitioner, Joy Landfield, filed this action in the circuit court of Cook County in 1978 seeking a judgment of legal separation or in the alternative a judgment of dissolution of marriage. A hearing was held before Judge Henry Gentile in 1981, but Judge Gentile was murdered in his courtroom in connection with another domestic relations action before he was...

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