Diamond Mortgage Corp. v. Armstrong

An understanding of the issues before the court on this appeal depends more upon an understanding of the litigation’s procedural history than upon an exposition of its underlying factual matrix.

Defendant, Henrietta Armstrong, appeals from a judgment of foreclosure and sale entered by the circuit court, and both she and attorney Steven Morton appeal from an award of attorney fees entered against them pursuant to section 2—611 of the Code of Civil Procedure (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1987, ch. 110, par.2 —611). We disagree with the judgment of the circuit court, and hence we reverse.

On December 4, 1985,…