ADAMS FARM v. DOYLE

Nos. 4-97-1096, 4-98-0268.

727 N.E.2d 638 (2000)

312 Ill. App.3d 481

245 Ill.Dec. 191

ADAMS FARM; Allen Brothers; William P. Anderson; Calvin Applegate; Duane Barschdorf; Bendixen Farm; Ada Benson; Russel E. Benway and Barbara J. Benway; Earl Blair; John Bolen, Jr.; Cyril Burns; James L. Burns; John Burns; Melvin Burger; Malcolm Cady; Joseph Cleary; Conness Farm; John M. Cornale; T. Craven et al.; D'Amico No. 3; Louise Davis Farm; Leo Dixon; Dwight Industrial Association; Dwight Methodist Church; Rosemary Finnegan; Donald G. Funk; Julia Gantzert; Roland R. Gantzert; Donald Haake; Francis Halpin, Jr.; Kevin Hoegger; Leo Hoegger; Ray Hoegger; Hundley Farm; Illinois Valley Investment; John Jackson; Joost Farm; Dennis Kehoe; Jack Kennedy; Elbert Knuteson and Margaret Knuteson; Elmer H. Kohrt; Karl J. Kohrt; Kugel Farms; Gilbert J. Lauritzen; Mccormick Farm; Edith Miller; Robert D. Myers; Nevada Corporation; John Orcutt; Pastore Farm; Raymond Ralph; Ellen L. Redmond; Ellen J. Saville; Stevenson Farm Account; Turner Estate; Leslie and Lydia Wassom Trust; Lydia Wassom Trust; Gladys Whiteside; Elmer Wills; Mark A. Wills; Claude Wilson, Jr.; George Wilson; Ronald M. Wolf; Fred Blossom Trust; and Shirley Green, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Becky DOYLE, Director, Illinois Department of Agriculture, and The Illinois Department of Agriculture, Defendants-Appellants, and Alverda Bastien, Dorothy Johnson, Erickson Brothers, Bridy Camiskey, Edith Leach, Earl Kime, Charles Allen Trust, McGreevy Farm, Ron Graves, Robert Graves, John O'neill, Bernard Cassady, Johnston Farms, Virgil Larson, Rick Anderson, Patrick Prendiville, Marian Conrath, Jacqueline Gibbons, Thomas Erdman, Roger Murphy, Helen Papenburg, Namchick Farm, Donna K. Shephard, Andrew R. Krull, Matthew Krull, Cahill-Kerwin Farm, James Bedecker, William Dunn, Mary Louise Patterson Estate, Rita Sloan, James O'Neill, Richard O'Neill, John Emm, Illinois Soybean Program Operating Board, Illinois Corn Marketing Board, and Blackstone-Sunbury-Nevada Grain Company, Inc., Defendants.

Appellate Court of Illinois, Fourth District.

Decided March 28, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Ryan, Attorney General, Barbara A. Preiner, Solicitor General, Paul Racette, Assistant Attorney General (argued), Chicago, for Becky Doyle, Director.

Raymond J. Watson, Jr. (argued), Springfield, for Adams Farm.


Presiding Justice COOK delivered the opinion of the court:

The circuit court of Livingston County, sitting in administrative review, reversed a decision of the Department of Agriculture (Department). The Department had held that the assets of a failed grain dealer must be used to reimburse the Illinois Grain Insurance Fund for payments made by the fund to grain producers before the dealer's assets could be used to pay the balance of the producers' claims. However...

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