BRUNTON v. KRUGER

No. 4-13-0421.

8 N.E.3d 536 (2014)

2014 IL App (4th) 130421

380 Ill. Dec. 366

June BRUNTON, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Robert KRUGER, as Trustee of the Helen P. Kruger Trust Dated December 7, 2005, as Trustee of the Gordon J. Kruger Trust Dated December 7, 2005, as Executor of the Helen P. Kruger Estate, as Executor of the Gordon J. Kruger Estate, and Individually; David G. Kruger; Gordon J. Kruger, a/k/a James Kruger; Mary B. Kruger, a/k/a Mary I. Kruger; Debra J. Kruger; Clint S. Kruger; Brian D. Kruger; and Unknown Descendants of Robert Kruger and David Kruger, Respondents-Appellees, and Matthew F. Tibble, Contemnor-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, Fourth District.

March 27, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Marc Chemers (argued), Richard M. Waris , Matthew F. Tibbie , Philip G. Brandt , Pretzel & Stouffer, Chtrd., Chicago, for appellant.

Mercer Turner (argued), Law Office of Mercer Turner, P.C., Bloomington, Darrell E. Dies (argued), Eureka, for appellees.


OPINION

Presiding Justice APPLETON delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion.

¶ 1 An attorney, Matthew F. Tibble, appeals from an order in which the trial court, at his own request, found him to be in direct civil contempt of court and fined him $100 for refusing to comply with a discovery order. Tibble did not really treat the court with contempt (as the court understood, for it found his refusal to be "non-contumacious"). Rather, the contempt...

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