ALCANTAR v. PEOPLES GAS LIGHT AND COKE CO.

No. 1-95-3536.

681 N.E.2d 993 (1997)

288 Ill. App.3d 644

224 Ill.Dec. 372

Mario ALCANTAR, a Minor, by his Mother, Kathy ALCANTAR; Lance Jones, a Minor, and Michael Jones, a Minor, by their Mother, Miranda Jones; and John Jones, a Minor, by his Mother, Alma Jones, Plaintiffs, v. PEOPLES GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee and Cross-Appellant (Mamie Carpenter and Otis Carpenter, Defendants, Benjamin and Shapiro, Respondent-Appellant and Cross Appellee).

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Second Division.

May 6, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David A. Novoselsky & Associates, Chicago (David A. Novoselsy and Margarita T. Kulys, of counsel), for Respondent-Appellant and Cross-Appellee.

Ross & Hardies, Chicago, Elizabeth West Speidel and Darren J. Hunter, for Defendant-Appellee and Cross-appellant.


Justice McNULTY delivered the opinion of the court:

Respondent, the law firm of Benjamin & Shapiro, appeals from the trial court order denying its motion for substitution of judge and from the order imposing sanctions against Benjamin & Shapiro in the amount of $13,028.71, for filing a frivolous complaint against defendant Peoples Gas. Peoples Gas cross-appeals from the trial court's sanction order, claiming that the court should have awarded attorney fees...

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