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WOOD RIVER AREA DEV. v. GERMANIA FED.

No. 5-88-0297.

198 Ill. App.3d 445 (1990)

555 N.E.2d 1150

WOOD RIVER AREA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, on Behalf of Itself and Other Persons and Corporations Similarly Situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. GERMANIA FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION, Defendant-Appellee (Marvin Rochleau et al., Objecting Class Members, Plaintiffs-Appellants).

Appellate Court of Illinois — Fifth District.

Opinion filed June 1, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward T. McCarthy, of Edwardsville, for appellants Donald G. Soffer and Pearl Soffer.

L. James Struif, of Alton, for appellants Marvin Rochleau and Doris Rochleau.

Steven N. Mottaz, of Thomas, Mottaz, Eastman & Sherwood, of Alton, and Robert M. Lucy and Mark S. Deiermann, both of Bryan, Cave, McPheeters & McRoberts, of St. Louis, Missouri, for appellee Germania Federal Savings and Loan Association.

John Dale Stobbs and James S. Sinclair, both of Stobbs & Sinclair, of Alton, for appellee Wood River Area Development Corporation.

Reversed and remanded.

JUSTICE HOWERTON delivered the opinion of the court:

"Dragged out of the litigative attic at half-century intervals to deal with exotic cases of traveling preachers and bankrupt fraternal lodges, the class suit, as it had come to be called, was clearly good for something, even if no one could quite figure out what." Yeazell, From Group Litigation to Class Action, Part II: Interest, Class, and Representation, 27 UCLA L. Rev. 1067...

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