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AHART v. YOUNG

No. 5-87-0737.

194 Ill. App.3d 461 (1990)

551 N.E.2d 685

LONNIE AHART, Plaintiff, v. LEE YOUNG, Indiv. and as Agent for South Louisiana Stud, Inc., et al., Defendants (The Jockey Club, Defendant-Appellee; Runge & Gumbel, P.C., Intervenor-Appellant).

Appellate Court of Illinois — Fifth District.

Opinion filed February 9, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David C. Davis, of Runge & Gumbel, P.C., of Collinsville, for appellant.

Curtis L. Blood, of Reed, Armstrong, Gorman, Coffey, Thomson & Gilbert, of Edwardsville, for appellee.

Reversed and remanded.

JUSTICE HOWERTON delivered the opinion of the court:

Jurisdiction means power, and cases involving questions of jurisdiction are most serious, because they touch the foundation of a free society — the power of the sovereign, through her courts, to select the winner of a dispute between otherwise free parties, and, once selection is made, to coerce compliance with the decision;...

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