Fuchs v. Bidwill

Plaintiffs, Leonard Fuchs and Businessmen for the Public Interest, appealed from the judgment of the circuit court of Sangamon County entered in favor of the defendants upon allowance of their motions to dismiss. The appellate court reversed the judgment and remanded the cause for further proceedings (31 Ill. App. 3d 567), and we allowed defendants’ petitions for leave to appeal.

Plaintiffs, “as representatives of and on behalf of all citizens, residents and taxpayers of the State of Illinois” filed a complaint in two counts, seeking an accounting, the declaration of a constructive trust and…