Skolnick v. Martin

Sherman H. Skolnick, plaintiff, takes this appeal from an order entered in the Superior Court of Cook County on March 28, 1962, dismissing plaintiff’s suit .at plaintiff’s costs, and denying plaintiff’s motion to file an amended complaint.

In dismissing plaintiff’s suit, the trial court sustained the motion of the defendants on the ground “that there is presently pending in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, another action between the same parties, with the same alignment of parties, for the same alleged cause.” The background of the…