Legal Opinion
Finley v. Kesling
Appellate Court of Illinois
Decided March 18, 1982No. 81-945PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Romiti
The plaintiff in this case was previously a party to a divorce action in Indiana. In that case he testified, under oath, that he owned 31% of certain stock, his wife 29% and his children 40%. The Indiana court accepted this testimony and so divided the particular property. Now the plaintiff has filed a lawsuit in Illinois claiming beneficial ownership of the stock which in Indiana he had testified was owned by the children. The trial court, while aware that Indiana will not apply collateral estoppel unless mutuality is present, held that even though the children were not parties to the…
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