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FIELD v. ROLLINS

Nos. 86-1686, 86-1706 cons.

156 Ill. App.3d 786 (1987)

510 N.E.2d 105

GERSON B. FIELD et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. H.B. ROLLINS et al., Defendants-Appellees. — GERSON B. FIELD, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. JAMES H. DONNEWALD, Treasurer of the State of Illinois, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District (2nd Division).

Rehearing denied July 14, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerson B. Field, pro se, of Lisco & Field, and Sidney Z. Karasik, both of Chicago, for appellant.

Neil F. Hartigan, Attorney General, of Springfield (Roma Jones Stewart, Solicitor General, and Robert J. Ruiz, Michael J. Brennan, and Beverly N. Masuda, Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, of counsel), for appellee James H. Donnewald.

Reversed and remanded.

JUSTICE BILANDIC delivered the opinion of the court:

These consolidated appeals arise from several unsuccessful actions of Gerson B. Field (plaintiff), an attorney, seeking to compel payment of attorney fees out of the so-called "Second Injury Fund" established by the Illinois Workers' Compensation Act. Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. 48, par. 138.7(f).

H.B. Rollins, the employee whom plaintiff represented, was declared "totally and...

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