Hansberry v. Lee

The question is whether the Supreme Court of Illinois, by its adjudication that petitioners in this case are bound by a judgment rendered in an earlier litigation to which they were not parties, has deprived them of the due process of law guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment.

Respondents brought this suit in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, tp enjoin the breach by petitioners of an-agreement restricting the'use of land within a described area of the City of Chicago, which was alleged to have been entered into by some five hundred of the landowners.. The agreement stipulated that…