21 Ill. App. 3d 505 - Meggison v. Stevens’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 2012
10 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Roy Strom Excavating & Grading Co. v. National Bank of Albany Park
Most-quoted passages
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““The statutes and rules which govern supplementary proceedings all contemplate that a third party claiming an interest in the property involved must be given a ‘trial * * * as in other civil cases’; hence, must be given a full opportunity to present and maintain his or her claim. See Ill. Rev. Stat. 1971, ch. 110, par. 73(5); ch. 110A, par. 277(e); ch. 62, pars. 42, 43. As a third party citation respondent and a defendant in plaintiff’s subsequent petition for relief, appellant is in the position of a garnishee asserting her own property right in the subject premises. The record in this case shows that appellant was not afforded such an opportunity despite her request for it. Her citation examination does not itself constitute such an opportunity since such examination is simply a preliminary discovery proceeding which might elicit facts which could serve as the basis for a subsequent petition for relief, which, as to the third party, would constitute the initial pleading in tire nature of a complaint. Appellant filed an answer which put the cause at issue. While the parties by agreement may stipulate the pleadings, citation examinations and evidence which may be considered by the court in resolving the issues before the court, the record in this case contains no evidence of any such agreement by the parties or their counsel, and trial counsel for appellant denied any such agreement and expressly asked to put on a witness for the appellant. We think it was error to refuse to ”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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