Gruse v. Belline

How courts have described this case

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• holding an appellant could not incorporate by reference the arguments in a posttrial motion appearing in the appendix to his brief
• evidence of two judgments entered against plaintiff, allegedly due to attorney’s negligence, was sufficient proof of damages, regardless of whether judgments had been paid or collected yet
• “plaintiff introduced into evidence the two judgments against him, and we believe this was proper proof of damages absent any evidence to the contrary.”
• “Goldzier is inapposite, for the attorneys in that case were hired to prosecute, not defend a claim[.]”
• “In Illinois, an accepted measure of damages for breach of an insurance contract to defend is the amount of the judgment rendered against the insured ***.”
• evidence of two judgments entered against plaintiff, allegedly due to attorney's negligence, was sufficient proof of damages, regardless of whether judgments had been paid or collected yet

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).