Legal Opinion
Holzer v. Motorola Lighting, Inc.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Decided March 31, 1998No. 1—96—3944, 1—97—0305 consPublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gordon
Plaintiffs Walter Holzer and Prolite Gesellshaftfur Lichttechnik mbh (Prolite) appeal the circuit court’s dismissal of their suit against Motorola Lighting, Inc. (MLI), for failure to name a necessary party.
Plaintiffs filed a four-count complaint against MLI in June 1996. According to the complaint, Holzer, a German national, is an industrialist and engineer with a number of inventions to his credit. In April 1990, he entered into a partnership agreement with nonparty Henri Courier DeMere (DeMere), an engineer and inventor who had also developed technology, specifically in the field of…
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