Joseph T. Ryerson & Son, Inc. v. Manulife Real Estate Co.

PRESIDING JUSTICE EGAN

delivered the opinion of the court:

This court reversed a judgment in favor of the plaintiff, Joseph T. Ryerson and Son, Inc. (Ryerson), on the ground that the plaintiff had failed to name a necessary party as a defendant. (Joseph T. Ryerson & Son, Inc. v. Manulife Real Estate Co. (1990), 207 Ill. App. 3d 622, 566 N.E.2d 297.) The plaintiff then filed a complaint in the circuit court naming the same defendants that were named in the original complaint and the person we had said was a necessary party. The trial judge granted the defendant’s motion to dismiss the complaint…