Legal Opinion
O'NEILL v. De Laney
Appellate Court of Illinois
Decided December 31, 1980No. 79-460, 79-685 consPublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Lorenz
In this action for declaratory judgment (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1979, ch. 110, par. 57.1) plaintiff seeks a declaratory judgment that he is the owner of a valuable painting. Essentially, plaintiff maintains that the painting was sold to him by James Paul DeLaney on August 18, 1970. A cloud over plaintiff’s title was created in 1974 when defendant Jeannette DeLaney, in her divorce action against her husband James Paul DeLaney, claimed “special equities” in the painting as marital property. Plaintiff filed this action to end that controversy. Following a bench trial, the trial court found the…
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