Cummings v. Beaton & Associates, Inc.
Appellate Court of Illinois
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Linn
Plaintiffs, Thomas and Barbara Cummings, filed a six-count complaint against McDonald’s Corporation and other defendants who allegedly waged a war of harassment and intimidation against plaintiffs after their company, Central Ice Cream Company, won a $52 million jury verdict in 1984 against McDonald’s. The instant appeal is from one count of the complaint, which claims that McDonald’s violated a written settlement agreement that would have compromised and settled all of the Cummingses’ claims against McDonald’s and its agents. McDonald’s chairman of the board, Fred Turner, and its general…
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