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  "name": "Columbia Hardwood Lumber Company, Appellee, v. E. Kopriwa Company and Albert E. Lake. Albert E. Lake, Appellant",
  "name_abbreviation": "Columbia Hardwood Lumber Co. v. E. Kopriwa Co.",
  "decision_date": "1945-06-25",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 43,368",
  "first_page": "423",
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    "parties": [
      "Columbia Hardwood Lumber Company, Appellee, v. E. Kopriwa Company and Albert E. Lake. Albert E. Lake, Appellant."
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    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice O\u2019Connor\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\nJuly 27, 1944, plaintiff brought a civil action to revive a judgment entered in its favor on January 26, 1932, against the defendants for $300.39 and costs. In the statement of claim filed in the original suit plaintiff alleged that its claim was for a balance due on a promissory note executed by the defendant, E. Kopriwa Company, a corporation, and guaranteed by the defendant Albert E. Lake. In the instant case, upon filing the statement of claim, summons issued .against the two defendants and the return of the bailiff shows that he served Lake. And counsel for Lake says that the bailiff was directed to serve Lake only. Lake filed his appearance and his answer in which, among other things, he averred \u201cThat no revival is sought as to the E. Kopriwa Company, a Corporation.\u201d His answer and his second answer filed by .leave of court, were stricken and it was ordered that the judgment of January 26, 1932 be revived against the defendant Lake for $292.44, part of the judgment having in the meantime been paid. Lake appeals.\nCounsel for Lake contends that a joint judgment cannot be revived as to one of two defendants; Where it is sought to revive a joint judgment against one of several defendants, the judgment cannot be revived as to one unless one of the defendants interposes a personal defense such as his discharge in bankruptcy, or the like. Martinez v. Cogan, 320 Ill. App. 468.\nOn the other side counsel for plaintiff contends that \u201cThe common law rule that a joint judgment may not be revived as to one of the defendants has been changed by statute, and in any event, will not apply where the other defendant is a dissolved corporation.\u201d And \u00a7 50 [Par. 174] of the Civil Practice Act, ch. 110, Ill. Rev. Stat. 1943 [Jones Ill. Stats. Ann. 104.050] is cited. We think \u00a7 50 is in no way applicable to the facts in the case before us. Counsel further says in discussing an authority cited by defondant, which was an action to revive a judgment as to one of the defendants: \u201cThat case held that a judgment may not he revived against a surviving judgment debtor without joining the personal representative or the heirs of the deceased codefendant. That case did not involve a dissolved corporation, and cannot be construed to be authority for the proposition, which in effect the defendant is here contending for, that a revival may not be obtained against him without seeking a revival against a corporation which, as a matter of public record, has been dissolved some twelve years ago. If it be a fact that appellee is precluded from relying on that public record, because not a part of the original record on appeal, it is submitted that a grave doubt exists as to the defendant\u2019s good faith in raising that point; he was the treasurer of the dissolved corporation and, it is reasonable to assume, knew of the dissolution of the corporation.\u201d The difficulty with this argument is that there is nothing in the record before us that shows the defendant, E. Kopriwa, a corporation has been dissolved.\nLake in his answer averred that plaintiff did not seek to revive the judgment against the E. Kopriwa Company, a corporation. No answer was made by plaintiff to this, which might have been easily done if the corporation had been dissolved, but on the contrary, plaintiff moved to strike the answer. In this state of the record the order of the court striking the defendant\u2019s answer and reviving the judgment against Lake was erroneous.\nThe judgment of the Municipal court of Chicago is reversed and the cause remanded.\nReversed and remanded.\nMatchett, P. J., and Niemeyer, J., concur.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice O\u2019Connor"
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    "attorneys": [
      "Albert E. Lake, pro se.",
      "Nolan H. Tepper, of Chicago, for appellee."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Columbia Hardwood Lumber Company, Appellee, v. E. Kopriwa Company and Albert E. Lake. Albert E. Lake, Appellant.\nGen. No. 43,368.\nHeard in the first division of this court for the first district at the April term, 1945.\nOpinion filed June 25, 1945.\nReleased for publication July 19, 1945.\nAlbert E. Lake, pro se.\nNolan H. Tepper, of Chicago, for appellee."
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