ACADEMY CHICAGO PUBLISHERS v. CHEEVER

No. 70587.

578 N.E.2d 981 (1991)

144 Ill.2d 24

161 Ill.Dec. 335

ACADEMY CHICAGO PUBLISHERS, Appellant, v. Mary W. CHEEVER, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing Denied September 30, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Thomas Moran, Jr., Marc L. Fogelberg, McBride, Baker & Coles, Chicago, for Academy Chicago Publishers.

M. Leslie Kite, M. Leslie Kite & Associates, P.C., Chicago, Martin Garbus, Maura Wogan, Russell Smith, Frankfurt, Garbus, Klein & Selz, New York City, for Mary W. Cheever.


Justice HEIPLE delivered the opinion of the court:

This is a suit for declaratory judgment. It arose out of an agreement between the widow of the widely published author, John Cheever, and Academy Chicago Publishers. Contact between the parties began in 1987 when the publisher approached Mrs. Cheever about the possibility of publishing a collection of Mr. Cheever's short stories which, though previously published, had never been collected into a single anthology....

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