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· 4/2/1981

In Re Estate of Pinckard

Citations

  • 417 N.E.2d 1360
  • 94 Ill. App. 3d 34

How courts have described this case

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

  • noting that individuals who hold themselves out to the public as a law firm partnership may be held liable on a partnership by estoppel theory
  • noting that individuals who hold themselves out to the public as a law firm partnership may be held liable on a partnership by estoppel theory
  • declining to find res judicata in the context of an appealed contempt order that did not impose a sanction because in the absence of a sanction, the contempt order was never appealable in the first place
  • “A person cannot be held in contempt for failure to comply with an order that is impossible for him to obey when such impossibility has occurred through no fault of his own.”

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Judges: Linn

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