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PARKS v. KOWNACKI

No. 5-97-0900.

711 N.E.2d 1208 (1999)

305 Ill. App.3d 449

238 Ill.Dec. 547

Gina Trimble PARKS and Douglas Parks, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Reverend Raymond KOWNACKI, the Catholic Diocese of Belleville, Inc., and St. Martin of Tours Roman Catholic Church, Defendants-Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois, Fifth District.

June 1, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan H. Silverman, Silverman, Smith & Bingen, P.C., Kalamazoo, MI; J. Michael Weilmuenster, Kassly, Bone, Dix, English & Weilmuenster, Belleville, for Appellants.

Theodore J. MacDonald, Daniel W. Farroll, Burroughs, Hepler, MacDonald & Hebrank, Edwardsville, for Reverend Raymond Kownacki.

Thompson Coburn, David Wells, Conny Davinroy Beatty, St. Louis, MO, for The Catholic Diocese of Belleville, Inc.

Thomas Q. Keefe, Belleville, for St. Martin of Tours Roman Catholic Church.

Justice CHAPMAN delivered the opinion of the court:

The following facts are true.

In 1955, during President Eisenhower's first term in office and two years before Sputnik was launched, Gina Trimble was born into a devout Roman Catholic family. Her family believed that, in order to live their lives correctly and to receive God's blessings, they had to follow the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church without question. Gina and her eight brothers and sisters...

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