CASTRO v. BROWN'S CHICKEN AND PASTA, INC.

No. 1-99-0888.

732 N.E.2d 37 (2000)

314 Ill. App.3d 542

247 Ill.Dec. 321

Emmanuel CASTRO, Administrator of the Estate of Michael Castro, Deceased, and Evelyn Urgena, Administrator of the Estate of Rico Solis, Deceased, Plaintiffs-Appellants and Cross-Appellees, v. BROWN'S CHICKEN AND PASTA, INC., Defendant-Appellee and Third-Party Plaintiff (The Cook County State's Attorney's Office, Intervenor and Cross-Appellant; Ehlenfeldt Enterprise, Inc., Third-Party Defendant).

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Fourth Division.

June 15, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Terrence E. Leonard, Chicago, for Appellants.

Cassiday Schade & Gloor, Chicago (Bruce M. Wall, Donald F. Ivansek, of counsel), for Appellee.

Richard A. Devine, Cook County State's Attorney, Chicago (Maureen E. Mulvenna, of counsel), for Intervenor.

Hinshaw & Culbertson, Chicago (Stephen R. Swofford, David H. Levitt, Christine L. Olson, of counsel), for Third-Party Defendant.

Thomas R. Burney, Glenn C. Sechen, James R. Griffin, Schain Burney Ross & Citron, Ltd., Chicago, for Village of Palatine.


Justice SOUTH delivered the opinion of the court:

On January 8, 1993, at approximately 9 p.m., one or more persons entered the Brown's Chicken & Pasta, Inc. (Brown's) restaurant in Palatine, Illinois, and murdered seven people. The franchisees, Mr. and Mrs. Ehlenfeldt, had just entered into a franchise agreement with Brown's approximately six months prior on May 29, 1992. The victims of the crime, the Ehlenfeldts, Michael Castro, Rico Solis, Guadalupe Maldonado...

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