Dils v. City of Chicago

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “cases have uniformly held that in cases of default the trial court in granting an award in excess of the [a]d damnum exceeds its authority and that that portion of the decree in excess of the [a]d damnum is void.”
• “cases have uniformly held that in cases of default the trial court in granting an award in excess of the [a]d damnum exceeds its authority and that that portion of the decree in excess of the [a]d damnum is void.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).