Schwalm Electronics, Inc. v. Electrical Products Corp.

This is an interlocutory appeal brought under the procedure authorized by Supreme Court Rule 307. The issue is whether the trial court abused its discretion when it denied plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction. The facts are not in dispute.

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Schwalm Electronics and Television Laboratories, the plaintiffs in the trial court, are Illinois corporations owned and controlled by Walter Schwalm. Electrical Products, one of the defendants, is an Illinois corporation organized, owned and controlled by the other defendants, Roger D. Lehman and Nicholas M. Harrison. Schwalm manufactures and…