Marks v. Columbia Yacht Club
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Lockwood Honors, Judge, presiding. The questions involved in both of these cases are identical and will be disposed of together.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Lockwood Honors, Judge, presiding. The questions involved in both of these cases are identical and will be disposed of together. On May 21, 1901, the appellant, Clarence W. Marks, filed his bill in the circuit court of Cook county against the Chicago Yacht Club and the Columbia Yacht Club, in which he alleged that the latter club was wrongfully constructing a club house immediately adjoining the inner breakwater on the east and just south of the south line of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Wilkin
The appellant, as grounds of reversal, urges that the amounts of damage are excessive, and that the services of the solicitors, upon which the claims were based, were rendered, partly at least, upon the arguments of the general demurrer to the bill and in general defense of the case, and not solely upon the dissolution of the temporary injunction. We do not see how there can be any misunderstanding as to the law applicable to the facts of this case. The allowance of these damages for service rendered in obtaining the dissolution of the temporary injunction is governed by section 12 of chapter…
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