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LEADER v. CULLERTON

Nos. 47308, 47323 cons.

62 Ill.2d 483 (1976)

343 N.E.2d 897

LOUIS LEADER, Plaintiff, v. PATRICK J. CULLERTON, Assessor of Cook County, et al., Defendants. — CHICAGO TITLE & TRUST COMPANY et al., Plaintiffs, v. PATRICK J. CULLERTON, Assessor of Cook County, et al., Defendants. — (Lowell J. Myers et al., Appellees and Cross Appellants, v. Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago et al., Appellants and Cross Appellees.)

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Supplemental opinion filed on denial of rehearing March 25, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sherwood K. Platt, Robert L. Stern, George V. Bobrinskoy, Jr., and Fern C. Bomchill, all of Chicago (Mayer, Brown & Platt, of counsel), for appellants Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago, United Air Lines, Inc., Kelly Springfield Company, and Holiday Inns, Inc.

Francis J. McConnell and Richard P. Campbell, of McConnell & Campbell, of Chicago, for appellant Addressograph-Multigraph Corporation.

Lowell Myers, and D'Ancona, Pflaum, Wyatt & Riskind (Merrill A. Freed and Morton Denlow, of counsel), and Arvey, Hodes, Costello & Burman (Sidney R. Zatz, Herman Smith, and Jack Oppenheim, of counsel), all of Chicago, pro se.

Aff'd in pt. & rev. in pt. & rem.

MR. JUSTICE RYAN delivered the opinion of the court:

This case involves the propriety of an award of attorneys' fees in a class action in the circuit court of Cook County. Lowell J. Myers, the firm of D'Ancona, Pflaum, Wyatt and Riskind and the firm of Arvey, Hodes and Mantynband, representing various clients, brought two class actions later consolidated, challenging the constitutionality of the 1969 amendment to section...

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