MERRILL v. CHICAGO & ILLINOIS MIDLAND RY.

No. 88-3177.

751 F.Supp. 770 (1990)

Thomas E. MERRILL, Plaintiff, v. CHICAGO & ILLINOIS MIDLAND RAILWAY, Defendant.

United States District Court, C.D. Illinois, Springfield Division.

August 15, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kevin P. Durkin, Robert A. Clifford & Assoc., P.C., Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff.

Charles E. Holt, Hugh J. Graham, III, Graham & Graham, Springfield, Ill., Hugh C. Griffin, David R. Schmidt, Lord Bissell & Brook, Chicago, Ill., for defendant.


OPINION

RICHARD MILLS, District Judge:

One thing this Court will not suffer lightly is trial by artifice and ambuscade.

We expect litigants and their counsel to abide by both the letter and the spirit of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and to cooperate fully—within the metes and bounds of our adversarial system—in an effort to uncover the truth and attempt to do justice.

Yet during the course of this litigation we were...

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