MASSIE v. MINOR

No. 5-98-0598.

716 N.E.2d 857 (1999)

307 Ill. App.3d 115

240 Ill.Dec. 263

Lawrence T. MASSIE, Executor of the Estate of Michael P. Massie, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Paul S. MINOR, Defendant-Appellant. (Minor and Associates, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Lawrence T. Massie, Executor of the Estate of Michael P. Massie, Respondent-Appellee.)

Appellate Court of Illinois, Fifth District.

August 30, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

T. David Purcell, Mitchell, Neubauer & Hanson, P.C., Mt. Vernon, for Appellants.

Eric L. Terlizzi, Pfaff, Garner & Terlizzi, Salem, for Appellee.


Justice WELCH delivered the opinion of the court:

This appeal involves a question of the enforceability of a judgment rendered by a trial court in Mississippi and whether it must be given full faith and credit by an Illinois court. The appeal involves two separate actions: (1) a suit brought in Illinois for money due on a written contract, including a motion to dismiss based on the res judicata effect of a Mississippi judgment (cause no. 97-LM-213), and (2...

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