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        "text": "Mr. JUSTICE ROMITI\ndelivered the opinion of the court:\nThe defendant husband in this case appeals from an order awarding attorneys\u2019 fees for services rendered in a 1975 appeal to this court. We agree with the appellant that the appellate court\u2019s order in the 1975 opinion reversing the award of attorneys\u2019 fees for services in defending that appeal is res judicata and reverse.\nThe parties in this case were divorced in 1964. Several years later Beverly Goldberg filed two post-decretal divorce petitions. One asked for an increase in alimony, the other for an order directing Harvey Goldberg to pay certain medical bills. The trial court in that case granted both petitions. After the above proceedings, Mrs. Goldberg\u2019s attorneys filed a petition seeking attorneys\u2019 fees from Mr. Goldberg both for services performed during the trial court proceedings and to defend the appeal. After an evidentiary hearing the trial court awarded attorneys\u2019 fees of *3,000 to one firm and *1,500 to another attorney for trial court service and awarded an additional *1,500 for defense of the appeal. The appellate court in Goldberg v. Goldberg (1975), 30 Ill. App. 3d 769, 332 N.E.2d 710, reversed the increase in alimony, affirmed the order directing payment of medical expenses, affirmed the *3,000 award to the one law firm but reversed the award to the other attorney pro forma since the attorney had abandoned his case, and reversed the *1,500 award for attorneys\u2019 fees for defending the appeal. Subsequently, Mrs. Goldberg filed a new petition again seeking to recover attorneys\u2019 fees for the defense of the 1975 appeal. Mr. Goldberg defended, on the ground, inter alia, that this matter had already been adjudicated in the appellate court opinion. The trial court again awarded attorneys\u2019 fees in the amount of *1,500 for services rendered in defending the 1975 appeal.\nOn appeal, Mrs. Goldberg has attempted to explain away the original appellate court ruling by pointing to its statement in enumerating the issues raised by Mr. Goldberg in that first appeal \u201c(4) whether the trial court was authorized to award attorneys\u2019 fees to defend the appeal in this cause before the services were even performed.\u201d Mrs. Goldberg concludes from this that the court merely ruled that the award of attorneys\u2019 fees before the services were even performed was improper. But we cannot merely look to a court\u2019s statement of the issue to determine what a court decided; rather we must look to what the court says it is deciding and what it says is its decision. The court in Goldberg in ruling on the issue at 30 Ill. App. 3d 769, 775, 332 N.E.2d 710, 715-16, said:\n\u201cMr. Goldberg next contends that the trial court erred when it ordered him to pay *1,500 in attorneys\u2019 fees to defend the appeal. We agree. In the instant case, the appeal is from a post-decretal order concerning alimony and the payment of certain medical bills. In Horwitz v. Horwitz (1970), 130 Ill. App. 2d 424, 264 N.E.2d 723, this court ruled that it was error for the trial court to award attorneys\u2019 fees in an appeal from a post-decretal order. (Also see Hall v. Hall (1975), 25 Ill. App. 3d 524, 323 N.E.2d 541; contra, Waltrip v. Waltrip (1972), 3 Ill. App. 3d 892, 279 N.E.2d 405, and Rosenberger v. Rosenberger (1974), 21 Ill. App. 3d 550, 316 N.E.2d 1.) In accordance with the rule in Horwitz, we reverse the trial court\u2019s order requiring Mr. Goldberg to pay $1,500 to defend the appeal.\u201d (Emphasis added.)\nThe rule in Horwitz which expressly was followed in Goldberg was that \u201c[the statute] by its express terms applies only to matters culminating in the original divorce decree and does not authorize an allowance of attorney\u2019s fees to defend an appeal from a post-decretal order. Therefore, the trial court erred in ordering plaintiff to pay defendant\u2019s attorney an allowance for defense of plaintiff\u2019s initial appeal.\u201d (Horwitz v. Horwitz (1970), 130 Ill. App. 2d 424, 428, 264 N.E.2d 723, 725.) Likewise Hall, Waltrip, and Rosenberger, cited in Goldberg, all concerned the question whether the award of attorneys\u2019 fees in an appeal from a post-decretal order was proper. None concerned the issue whether they could only be awarded after the services were performed, indeed in all the cases the trial court had awarded the attorneys\u2019 fees before the services were actually performed. Accordingly, it is clear that the appellate court in Goldberg ruled that the plaintiff could not recover attorneys\u2019 fees for the defense of the appeal since the appeal was from a post-decretal order. Plaintiff\u2019s contention that this court\u2019s decision in Goldberg was erroneous because it was in conflict with other decisions by the First District allowing attorneys\u2019 fees in post-decretal matters is irrelevant. Since the plaintiff failed to appeal that determination to the Illinois Supreme Court she is foreclosed from litigating it anew before this court:\n\u201cThere must be an end to litigation somewhere, and there would be none if parties were at liberty, after a case had received the final determination of the Court of last resort, to litigate the same matter anew, and bring it again and again before the Court for its decision.\u201d\nHollowbush v. McConnel (1850), 12 Ill. 203, 204; People ex rel. Kastning v. Militzer (1921), 301 Ill. 284, 287, 133 N.E. 761, 762.\nAccordingly, the judgment of the trial court is reversed.\nReversed.\nJOHNSON, P. J., and LINN, J., concur.",
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      "Arvey, Hodes, Costello & Burman, of Chicago (Howard Arvey, Gary D. Friedman, and Lawrence C. Rubin, of counsel), for appellant.",
      "Robbins, Coe, Rubinstein & Shafran, Ltd., of Chicago (Robert A. Coe and Howard S. Golden, of counsel), for appellee."
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    "head_matter": "BEVERLY C. GOLDBERG, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. HARVEY S. GOLDBERG, Defendant-Appellant.\nFirst District (4th Division)\nNo. 76-1673\nOpinion filed February 16, 1978.\nArvey, Hodes, Costello & Burman, of Chicago (Howard Arvey, Gary D. Friedman, and Lawrence C. Rubin, of counsel), for appellant.\nRobbins, Coe, Rubinstein & Shafran, Ltd., of Chicago (Robert A. Coe and Howard S. Golden, of counsel), for appellee."
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