{ "id": 2645140, "name": "Ida Oberreich, Appellee, v. Frank Foster, Appellant", "name_abbreviation": "Oberreich v. Foster", "decision_date": "1909-05-20", "docket_number": "Gen. No. 14,508", "first_page": "397", "last_page": "399", "citations": [ { "type": "official", "cite": "148 Ill. App. 397" } ], "court": { "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.", "id": 8837, "name": "Illinois Appellate Court" }, "jurisdiction": { "id": 29, "name_long": "Illinois", "name": "Ill." }, "cites_to": [ { "cite": "230 Ill. 526", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ill.", "opinion_index": 0 }, { "cite": "230 Ill. 525", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ill.", "case_ids": [ 5631521 ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ill/230/0525-01" ] }, { "cite": "130 Ill. App. 568", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ill. App.", "case_ids": [ 2527933 ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ill-app/130/0568-01" ] } ], "analysis": { "cardinality": 260, "char_count": 4186, "ocr_confidence": 0.5, "pagerank": { "raw": 4.03580807328026e-08, "percentile": 0.0831131467510268 }, "sha256": "20f4d75af7345f1b2a6b4ae3463308c18b1fbbf6056a0c450cad06df53410f65", "simhash": "1:c00a5887aea3661a", "word_count": 693 }, "last_updated": "2023-07-14T18:19:20.179595+00:00", "provenance": { "date_added": "2019-08-29", "source": "Harvard", "batch": "2018" }, "casebody": { "judges": [], "parties": [ "Ida Oberreich, Appellee, v. Frank Foster, Appellant." ], "opinions": [ { "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice Adams\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\nAppellee brought suit against appellant July 12, 1902, and filed her declaration therein. The defendant was defaulted and the damages were assessed by a jury at the sum of $2,130, and February 23, 1905, the court rendered judgment for said sum. The defendant appealed to this court and the judgment was affirmed. Foster v. Oberreich, 130 Ill. App. 568. The defendant then appealed from this to the Supreme Court, which court affirmed the judgment of this court. Foster v. Oberreich, 230 Ill. 525.\nThe appellant filed his petition in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, in bankruptcy. November 24,1904, he was adjudicated a bankrupt, and December 11, 1905, the United States District Court, on appellant\u2019s petition, entered an order restraining appellee from proceeding to enforce and collect her judgment against appellant \u201cuntil the further order of the court or until the discharge of said bankrupt be determined by this court\u201d. January 30, 1906, a final order was entered in the United States Court, ordering \u201cthat said Frank Foster be discharged from all debts and claims, which are made provable by .said acts, against his estate, and which existed on the 29th day of November, 1904, on which day the petition for adjudication was filed by him, excepting such debts as are by law exempted from the operation of a discharge in bankruptcy\u201d. January 14, 1908, appellant filed in the Circuit Court of Cook county, by leave of the court, his petition setting up the foregoing facts, and also that appellee\u2019s claim was scheduled in the bankruptcy court. Appellee answered the petition, and the court, after hearing the evidence and argument of counsel, dismissed the petition.\nThe restraining order of the United States Court is limited, in terms, to the date of appellant\u2019s discharge. This is recognized by appellant, in petitioning the Circuit Court for a restraining order. The sole question between the parties is one of law, namely, whether appellee\u2019s claim against appellant is provable in bankruptcy.\nSection 17 of the act of 1898, in regard to bankruptcy, provides that a discharge shall not release the bankrupt from certain debts, among which the following are mentioned: \u201cJudgments in actions for fraud, or obtaining property by false pretenses or false representations, or for wilful and malicious injuries to the person or property of another\u201d. Fed. Stat\u2019s Annotated, p. 578, sec. 17, division 2.\nIn Foster v. Oberreich, 230 Ill. 526, the question before the court was whether the declaration was sufficient to suport the judgment. There were only two counts in the declaration. The court held the first count insufficient, and held the second sufficient, and, after quoting the count, say: \u201cThis count of the declaration contains, in substance, all of the essential elements of a cause of action in case for fraud and deceit\u201d. It is therefore res adjudicata, as between the parties, that the judgment is for fraud and deceit, and, therefore, the discharge in bankruptcy did not operate to release appellant from it.\nThe judgment of the Circuit Court dismissing appellant\u2019s petition will be aErmed.\nAffirmed.", "type": "majority", "author": "Mr. Presiding Justice Adams" } ], "attorneys": [ "Poynton & Poynton and Lyman M. Paine, for appellant.", "James O. Elsdon, Cyrus Heren and N. A. Stern, for appellee." ], "corrections": "", "head_matter": "Ida Oberreich, Appellee, v. Frank Foster, Appellant.\nGen. No. 14,508.\n1. Bankruptcy\u2014what debt not affected by discharge. A judgment rendered in an action of which fraud was the gist is not affected by a discharge in bankruptcy.\n2. Res judicata\u2014when question of fraud is. The fact that a judgment was rendered in an action of which fraud was the gist is res judicata where it appears that upon the review of such judgment the Supreme Court held that one of the two counts of the declaration was insufficient and that the other of such counts was sufficient and contained \u201call of the essential elements of a cause of action in case for fraud and deceit.\u201d\nTrespass on the case. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Merritt W. Pinckney, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in this court at the March term, 1908.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed May 20, 1909.\nPoynton & Poynton and Lyman M. Paine, for appellant.\nJames O. Elsdon, Cyrus Heren and N. A. Stern, for appellee." }, "file_name": "0397-01", "first_page_order": 413, "last_page_order": 415 }