Case Name: John C. Patterson, Appellant, v. Northern Trust Company et al., Appellees
Court: Illinois Appellate Court
Jurisdiction: Illinois
Decision Date: 1917-10-09
Citations: 207 Ill. App. 361
Docket Number: Gen. No. 22,797
Parties: John C. Patterson, Appellant, v. Northern Trust Company et al., Appellees.
Judges: 
Reporter: Illinois Appellate Court Reports
Volume: 207
Pages: 361–362

Head Matter:
John C. Patterson, Appellant, v. Northern Trust Company et al., Appellees.
Gen. No. 22,797.
(Not to be reported in full.)
Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Denis E. Sullivan, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1916.
Affirmed.
Opinion filed October 9, 1917.
Rehearing denied October 20, 1917.
Statement of the Case.
Bill for an accounting by John C. Patterson, complainant, against the Northern Trust Company and others, defendants. From an order holding complainant guilty of contempt of an order and injunction decree entered in the cause, enjoining him from commencing' any other suits, actions or proceedings at law or in equity against the Northern Trust Company in any other court or courts, based upon and relating to the matters and things in the bill charged, and from in any manner harassing and annoying the Northern Trust Company by the commencement or institution of any other suits, actions or proceedings against it in relation to the same subject-matter, complainant appeals. For the prior decision, which is the basis for the order of contempt, see Patterson v. Northern Trust Co., Gen. No. 22,798, ante, p. 355.
John C. Patterson, pro se.
Judah, Willard, Wolf & Reichmann, for appellee Northern Trust Company, as trustee.
See Illinois Notes Digest, Vole, XI to XV» and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number.

Opinion:
Mr. Presiding Justice Barnes
delivered the opinion of the court.
Abstract of the Decision.
Contempt, § 37 — when order of for violation of injunction is proper. Where a party complainant to a suit for an accounting violates an injunction against commencing any other suit or action in any court based upon matters charged and set forth'in the bill for an injunction, an order holding the complainant in contempt of court is proper.