Knaus v. M. R. C. Finance Corp.

Full title: Lulu I. Knaus, Appellant, v. M. R. C. Finance Corporation, Appellees

Court: Appellate Court of Illinois, Chicago, First District

Date published: Nov 7, 1945

327 Ill. App. 214 (Ill. App. Ct. 1945)

63 N.E.2d 671

Opinion

Gen. No. 43,160. (Abstract of Decision.)

Opinion filed November 7, 1945 Released for publication November 27, 1945

CONSPIRACY, § 4^_ — acts constituting conspiracy must be charged with particularity. In action charging conspiracy to defraud, where complaint contained allegations in form of conclusions with no facts given to support such conclusions, held that complaint did not state cause of action since gravamen of civil conspiracy consists of acts which constitute unlawful object of conspiracy and these must be charged with same particularity as though conspiracy were not alleged.

_ See Callaghan's Illinois Digest, same topic and section number.

Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. MICHAEL L. McKINLEY, Judge, presiding.

Order affirmed. Heard in the third division, first district, this court at the October term, 1944.

Balford Quintin Shields, for appellant;

Teller, Levit Silvertrust, for appellees.

Opinion by PRESIDING JUSTICE KILEY.

Not to be published in full. Opinion filed November 7, 1945; released for publication November 27, 1945.