John Allan Co. v. Brandow

This is an appeal from an order of the Circuit Court of LaSalle County dismissing plaintiff’s suit for failure to state a cause of action. Plaintiff The John Allan Company, a corporation, in its complaint charged substantially that defendants conspired to illegally deprive it of its property; that as part of the conspiracy, defendants committed perjury in a prior lawsuit, and it was alleged that the Judge in that suit found this was so. In the alternative plaintiff also claims that defendants are guilty of maintenance and champerty and malicious abuse of process.

The amended complaint which is…