Supreme Court of Illinois

In a claim for dividends from stock which was presumed abandoned under the Uniform Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act, dismissal of the claim is reversed and the matter remanded for computation of just compensation where plaintiff was entitled to the dividends earned while shares of stock he owned were in the custody of the state as abandoned property.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/07/2004
• Published 06/12/2007

Judges

• Justice FREEMAN delivered the opinion of the court:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Springfield (Gary Feinerman, Solicitor General, Brett E. Legner, Assistant Attorney General, Chicago, of counsel), for appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Arthur T. Susman, Charles R. Watkins, John R. Wylie, of Susman & Watkins, William J. Harte, all of Chicago, for appellee.