Court Opinion

ID: 9885010
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-10-06 03:27:44.94679+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:48:43.279403
License: Public Domain

BURKE, P. J. dissenting: Since the notice of appeal by the City was filed more than 20 days after the entry of the judgment, and the plaintiff (who was not a party to the suit resulting in the judgment) acquired his rights 38 days after the entry of the judgment and before any notice of appeal was filed or supersedeas ordered, the plaintiff’s rights in the property are not affected by the appeal from the judgment. Section 76 of the Civil Practice Act protects persons not parties to the suit where no supersedeas has been issued. See Barnard v. Michael, 392 Ill. 130, 63 N.E.2d 858; Cairo Lumber Co. Inc. v. Corwin, 325 Ill. App. 319, 322, 60 N.E.2d 110. Plaintiff must be considered to have acquired his right, title and interest in the property free from the effect of the reversal of the judgment of February 20, 1959. McCaskill, Jenner and Schaeffer, Illinois Civil Practice Act Annotated (1933) pp. 283-287. The right to erect and maintain a gasoline filling station with underground tanks upon the premises purchased by plaintiff without complying with the location and frontage consent ordinances is a right in real property within the meaning of Section 76 of the Civil Practice Act. See Western Theological Seminary v. Evanston, City of, 325 Ill. 511, 156 N. E. 778; Douglas v. Melrose Park, Village of, 389 Ill. 98, 58 N.E.2d 864; People v. Morton Grove, Village of, 16 Il1.2d 183, 191, 157 N.E.2d 33; Fifteen Fifty North State Bldg. Corp. v. Chicago, 15 Ill.2d 408, 155 N.E.2d 97; Deer Park Civic Ass’n v. Chicago, 347 Ill. App. 346, 106 N.E.2d 823. The judgment should be reversed and the cause remanded with directions to deny the motion to strike the complaint and to require the City to answer.