SLIMACK v. COUNTRY LIFE INS. CO.

No. 5-90-0385.

591 N.E.2d 70 (1992)

227 Ill. App.3d 287

169 Ill.Dec. 190

Joseph SLIMACK, Glen A. Merwin, Mrs. Carl Kunz, widow of Carl Kunz, Leroy Hamman, Larry A. Brighton, Leonard Brockmeyer, James Lyons, Donald Koenig, David Baggett, Merrett L. Litherland, and Larry D. Taylor, on behalf of themselves individually and all other persons similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants and Appellees, v. COUNTRY LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, a Corporation, Country Mutual Insurance Company, a Corporation, and Country Casualty Insurance Company, a Corporation, Defendants-Appellees and Appellants.

Appellate Court of Illinois, Fifth District.

Rehearing Denied May 21, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kassly, Bone, Becker, Dix, Reagan & Young, P.C., Patrick M. Young, J. Michael Weilmuenster, Pessin, Baird, Belsheim & Wells, Robert Wells, Belleville, for plaintiffs-appellants and appellees.

Duane C. Quaini, Kirk R. Ruthenberg, Roger K. Heidenreich, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, Chicago, Allen D. Churchill, Churchill, McDonnell & Hatch, Belleville, for defendants-appellees and appellants.


Justice LEWIS delivered the opinion of the court:

The applications of both the plaintiffs and the defendants for interlocutory appeal by permission were granted pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 308 (134 Ill.2d R. 308). The plaintiffs seeking to maintain this class action suit pursuant to section 2-801 of the Civil Practice Law (Ill.Rev.Stat.1989, ch. 110, par. 2-801) are former agents and the widow of a former agent of the defendants, Country Life Insurance Company...

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