Roche v. County of Lake

Defendant, County of Lake, appeals from a court order determining the meaning of “full-time deputy sheriff” as it was used in a 1983 summary judgment order entered against defendant. That order entitled plaintiffs, 16 employees of the Lake County sheriff’s office, to credit under the retirement annuity for sheriff’s law enforcement employees (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1981, ch. 108½, par. 7 — 142.1) from the time they were employed as full-time deputy sheriffs.

In 1989, seven of the plaintiffs from this judgment and five new plaintiffs filed a petition to enforce the judgment, claiming that they had not…