Yangas v. Mercantile Laundry Co.

This action to intervene in liquidation proceedings of the Mercantile Laundry Company was filed in the Circuit Court of Cook County by Catherine Yangas, a 50 percent owner of the building leased by the company at 153-159 Chicago Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. She appeals from the order of the court denying her leave to intervene.

The issue for review is whether the court erred in refusing to allow the intervening petitioner to intervene in the liquidation proceedings.

The principal suit, filed on September 21, 1971, was an action for an accounting and other relief by Conthelia Yangas, the mother of…