EAST ST. LOUIS — A U.S. district judge in East St. Louis ordered that parties in a more than $29 million medical malpractice case involving a 36-year-old man who suffered severe kidney damage due to alleged negligence to submit calculations and proposed judgments to the court.

On June 19, U.S. District Judge Nancy Rosenstengel of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois ordered that plaintiff Kevin Clanton and defendant the United States of America had to submit calculations, worksheets and proposed judgments in accordance with her instructions. All information had to be submitted by no later than June 30, according to the order.

In March, Rosenstengel awarded Kevin Clanton $29.6 million in damages in his medical malpractice suit against an East St. Louis clinic, which is operated by Southern Illinois Healthcare Foundation (SIHF). Clanton filed his suit against the federal government because it funded SIHF. The damages are to cover future medical expenses to treat Clanton’s kidney condition, which could include two more transplants.

During a hearing on May 22, the parties worked to translate the statute’s dictates into a workable methodology. After comparing the methodologies to the statute, the court held that Clanton’s methodology was “spot on.” The court ordered the parties to submit calculations with modifications.

For future damages, the amount of periodic payments should be calculated based on a life expectancy of 70 years, which Clanton will reach on May 23, 2050. The court found that the amount of future damages that should be included in the present award is $250,000, and declined to authorize an increased amount, according to the order.

The court rejected the defendant’s proposition that this amount should be reduced to present value. Since the defendant agreed to invoke the Illinois periodic payment provision, the court stated that it was obligated to follow all statute rules.

According to the order, the court also rejected the defendant’s proposal to impose a reversionary interest because the statute indicates that a plaintiff may still be entitled to payments after his death, and if so, those payments should be made to his qualifying survivors.

EAST ST. LOUIS – District judge David Herndon denied the Highland Board of Education’s motion for summary judgment in a discrimination suit, concluding a jury could conclude that the plaintiff was paid less because of her gender. 

Herndon denied the summary judgment request on July 5. 

Plaintiff Karen Gauen filed the complaint on Feb. 26, 2016, against the Board of Education of the Highland Community Unit School District, alleging employment discrimination based on her sex. 

Gauen claims the Board of Education paid her less money than her male counterparts for her work as principal and assistant principal. 

She is currently employed as the principal of the Highland High School, a position she has held for the past four years. She worked as assistant principal for a year prior to her appointment to principal. 

Gauen was first employed as an educator for more than 35 years, spending 24 of those years at the Highland school district. In total, Gauen has over 40 years of experience in the education field. 

She has a doctorate in education administration but had no relevant administrative experience prior to her appointment at Highland High School. 

As assistant principal, Gauen’s salary was $79,000 plus an additional $1,000 for having the National Board Certification. 

She claims her male predecessors made $105,349 and $95,527 per year. Both had less experience in the education field. 

Gauen’s current annual base salary is $103,997. She has a total of four years of administrative experience. Her predecessor made $107,825

The Board of Education answered the complaint on April 26, 2016, denying the allegations. It also filed a motion for summary judgment. 

The defendant argues that the administrator’s salaries are not based on gender, but the candidate’s prior administrative experience and seniority in the position. 

It also argues that Gauen cannot prove she was treated differently than the male employees at the school and they have a legitimate explanation for the pay gap, which they claim is based in administrative experience. 

Gauen filed an opposition the request, arguing that she is paid less because she is a woman. 

The plaintiff alleges she often asked about the pay discrepancies and was told she was a “hometown girl” and “could not expect to get as much as a man moving his family,” according to her testimony. 

Herndon concluded that there are questions of material fact that preclude summary judgment. 

“Gauen and her male counterparts held the same jobs: Gauen and her male counterparts were subject to the same standards: and Gauen and her male counterparts were subordinate to the same supervisor,” the order states. 

Therefore, the motion for summary judgment was denied. 

A woman’s trip and fall suit against Fast Eddie’s Bon Air alleging she tripped on an unmarked curb is at trial in Madison County Circuit Judge William Mudge’s courtroom.

The trial began July 18.

Plaintiffs Cleda and George Chestnut are represented in the case by Brian Wendler of Wendler Law PC in Edwardsville.

Fast Eddie’s is represented by James Leritz of Leritz, Plunkert and Bruning PC in St. Louis.

The plaintiffs filed the lawsuit on March 13, 2014.

In their three-count complaint, Cleda Chestnut claims she was a customer at Fast Eddie’s on Sept. 29, 2013, when she allegedly tripped and fell while walking on the enclosed street on the defendant’s Alton premises.

She alleges the street contained unmarked curbs and did not have transgression ramps from the pavement surface to the sidewalk.

She accuses the defendant of failing to warn of the alleged dangerous conditions.

As a result, Cleda Chestnut alleges she sustained severe and permanent injuries to her right leg, hip and related areas, requiring medical treatment.

She also claims she suffered great pain, mental anguish and permanent scarring from her injuries.

George Chestnut alleges he has been deprived, in whole or in part, of the support and services of his wife and is responsible for her medical bills.

Fast Eddie’s denies liability and argues that Cleda Chestnut contributed to her own injuries by failing to keep a proper lookout; failing to insure her own safety; failing to take adequate precautions to protect herself while in an unfamiliar area; and negligently walking on an area that was uneven, rough and dark.

Fast Eddie’s also argues that the condition of the premises was open and obvious.

The defendant sought summary judgment on Oct. 30, 2015.

“Whether a dangerous condition is open and obvious is determined by the objective knowledge of a reasonable person, not the plaintiff’s subjective knowledge,” the motion states.

“Based on the deposition testimony of Plaintiffs, Plaintiffs’ witnesses and Plaintiffs’ expert and looking at the circumstances objectively, it is clear that a reasonable person in Mrs. Chestnut’s position, exercising ordinary perception, intelligence and judgment, would have avoided the open and obvious hazard posed by the step,” it continues.

Mudge took the motion for summary judgment under advisement on Jan. 28, 2016. He ordered the defendant to produce additional photographs and ordered the plaintiffs to produce a copy of Eddie Sholar’s deposition.

On Nov. 28, 2016, Mudge entered an order requiring the parties to mediate.

The Chestnuts filed a motion to enforce the mediation order on Jan. 12.

They argue that after Mudge ordered mediation, the defendant failed to respond to emails seeking to select a mediator.

Then the defendant requested a settlement demand. The plaintiffs allegedly reminded Fast Eddies of the need to comply with the mediation order.

The defendant did not respond.

Mudge granted the motion that same day and appointed retired judge Daniel Stack to mediate the case.

On Jan. 25, Mudge set the case for trial this month.

Then on April 20, Mudge entered an order stating, “By agreement of the parties the Court’s prior Order appointing Hon. Daniel Stack as mediator does not preclude the parties from agreeing to mediation with a different mediator.”

Nothing further on the topic appears on the record.

Jury selection began July 18.

The Chestnuts seek a judgment of more than $50,000 each.

Madison County Circuit Court case number 14-L-403

EAST ST. LOUIS – Illinois Supreme Court Justice Lloyd Karmeier swore he knew nothing of campaign contributions from State Farm in 2004, according to a motion the insurer filed against a $10 billion racketeering claim on July 17.

Ronald Safer of Chicago quoted a deposition of Karmeier in support of a summary judgment motion challenging federal jurisdiction.

Safer wrote that while plaintiffs seek relief from State Farm, they also seek relief from a decision of the Illinois Supreme Court.

That decision overturned a Williamson County judgment awarding more than $1 billion to policyholders whose vehicles crashed from 1987 to 1998.

Safer wrote that according to plaintiffs, Karmeier participated in a racketeering enterprise and knew the sources of his contributions.

“Plaintiffs have asserted that the factual basis for that claim would be provided by testimony from Justice Karmeier and Al Adomite,” Safer wrote.

“But theproof is not forthcoming.

“Plaintiffs have no evidence that Justice Karmeier knew that any campaign contributions came from State Farm or anyone related to State Farm or that he knew of any State Farm support of his campaign.”

“Justice Karmeier’s uncontroverted testimony is that he had no knowledge of campaign contributions from or in any way related to State Farm.”

“Likewise, Al Adomite testified at his deposition in this case that he had no knowledge that Justice Karmeier knew anything about the sources of his contributions and that Adomite himself had no knowledge of State Farm providing any support to Justice Karmeier’s campaign.”

Adomite, who worked for the campaign, currently serves as mayor of Troy.

"Notably, plaintiffs now contend that they do not need to show that Justice Karmeier knew anything about supposed State Farm contributions in order to prove their claims,” Safer

He wrote that plaintiffs couldn’t rely on precedents they cited without proving that Karmeier knew State Farm supported him and knew his vote was corrupt.

They can’t meet their burden, he wrote.

Patrick Murphy of Marion filed the original suit in 1997, as local counsel for a national team representing policy holders in 48 states.

Murphy later served as U.S. district judge, returning to private practice in 2013.

His complaint alleged that State Farm provided inferior parts for repairs.

At trial before Williamson County associate judge John Speroni, jurors awarded almost $1 billion to lead plaintiff Michael Avery and his class.

Speroni added damages under Illinois consumer fraud law, pushing the judgment above $1 billion.

Fifth District appellate judges shrank it a bit in 2001, leaving it above $1 billion.

State Farm appealed to the Supreme Court.

In 2004, Karmeier ran for the Supreme Court as a Republican.

Fifth District judge Gordon Maag, author of the Avery decision, ran as a Democrat.

Karmeier won, and took office on Dec. 6, 2004.

On Jan. 26, 2005, Avery’s counsel moved to disqualify him.

The Court denied the motion, and Avery moved for reconsideration.

The Court denied it, and decided the case in August 2015.

Avery moved for rehearing, again challenging Karmeier’s participation.

The Court denied it.

Avery sought relief at the U.S. Supreme Court, and didn’t get it.

In 2011, he petitioned the Illinois Supreme Court to vacate its judgment and recall its mandate.

The Court denied his petition.

His lawyers sued State Farm in U.S. district court in 2012, on behalf of lead plaintiff Mark Hale of New York State.

Hale sought to recover the judgment, plus interest, with triple damages.

He named State Farm employee William Shepherd and Illinois Civil Justice League director Ed Murnane as parties to the conspiracy.

State Farm moved to dismiss the suit, and Herndon denied the motion.

State Farm moved for reconsideration, and he denied it.

State Farm petitioned Seventh Circuit judges to stop the proceedings, but they denied the petition.

Herndon certified aclass action identical to the Avery class last year, and the Seventh Circuit denied a petition to decertify it.

Class counsel moved to expand the class definition, and Herndon granted it.

State Farm sought relief at the Seventh Circuit, and didn’t get it.

Herndon has set trial next May, but Safer’s motion aims to close the case.

“There can be no reasonable dispute that plaintiffs are attempting to use this federal case to seek redress for the Illinois Supreme Court’s reversal of the $1.05 billion judgment in Avery,” he wrote.

He wrote that Karmeier testified he had no memory of meeting Shepherd, and that Shepherd never served on his campaign committee or finance committee.

He quoted a Seventh Circuit precedent that delving into whether fraud tainted a state court’s judgment amounts to exercise of de facto appellate jurisdiction.

“Plaintiffs, moreover, had a reasonable opportunity to litigate in the Illinois Supreme Court the same due process and other issues they now raise in this federal court, and repeatedly did so.”

He wrote that all six participating Justices in Avery reversed the judgment for three reasons and decertified the class.

He wrote that two Justices who partially dissented would have remanded the case to circuit court to identify possible sub classes claiming breach of contract.

“Plaintiffs state that they do not contend that any of the rulings in theIllinois Supreme Court’s decision on the merits in Avery were erroneous," he wrote.

He wrote that they admitted that they claimed in each of five challenges that Karmeier’s participation violated their due process rights.

He wrote that they produced a document stating that they didn’t file a petition at the U.S.Supreme Court after the decision of the Illinois Supreme Court in 2011, out of concern that it might have a negative impact on a racketeering suit.  

EAST ST. LOUIS – St.Clair County resident Toni Perrin concealed the value of a suit against retailer Dillard’s in bad faith to defeat federal jurisdiction, U.S. District Judge David Herndon ruled on July 13.

He denied a motion to remand Perrin’s personal injury suit to St. Clair County circuit court, where lawyer Lanny Darr of Alton filed it in 2015.

Herndon granted a bad faith exception to a rule that prohibits removal more than a year after commencement of an action in state court.

He wrote that Perrin deliberately failed to disclose an amount in controversy in excess of the $75,000 requirement for federal diversity jurisdiction.

Perrin’s suit fits the other requirement, a difference in state citizenships.

Herndon wrote that the history of the case lulled Dillard’s into believing the jurisdictional amount had not been met.

Perrin claims she slipped on vomit and fell at Dillard’s in St. Clair Square, in 2013.

She filed an arbitration proceeding in St. Clair County circuit court in 2015, seeking $50,000 plus costs.

Dillard’s served an interrogatory for the dollar amount of damages.

Darr answered,“Plaintiff’s suit was filed in AR division which is for claims of $50,000 orless.”

At an arbitration hearing before Associate Judge Heinz Rudolf in December 2015, Perrin testified that back surgery might be beneficial.

Rudolf entered anaward, which Perrin rejected.

She moved for transfer to the law docket, and Rudolf granted it in January 2016.

Dillard’s moved for summary judgment, and Associate Judge Christopher Kolker denied it this Jan.30.

He set a bench trialfor April 19.

On Jan. 31, Darr served a demand for $350,000.

On Feb. 23, Dillard counsel David Dimmitt of Maplewood, Mo., removed the suit on the basis of diversity jurisdiction.

On March 13, Darr moved to remand the action to St. Clair County.

He argued that Dillard’s knew the claim exceeded $50,000 after arbitration, when Perrin moved for transfer to the law docket.

He argued that a deposition of surgeon Thomas Lee also put Dillard’s on notice.

“Under any theory of removal, the defendant’s actions are too late to achieve federal court jurisdiction,” Darr wrote.

He wrote that seeking removal on the eve of trial was the type of activity that U.S. Code was intended to prevent.

He wrote that Dillard’s conduct warranted an award of fees and expenses.

On April 12, Dimmitt wrote that Perrin knew she would need back surgery in 2015, but didn’t communicate that to Dillard’s.

He wrote that bad faith doesn’t have to amount to malicious or unsavory conduct.

He wrote that it exists,“if the plaintiff deliberately failed to disclose the actual amount in controversy to prevent removal.”

“Moreover, plaintiff did not testify at her arbitration proceeding about the need for back surgery.”

His argument convinced Herndon, who held that the motion for transfer from arbitration to the law docket did not put Dillard’s on notice.

“Had the motion to transfer been accompanied with an update in discovery a contrary conclusion may result.”

He found no affirmative conclusion that surgery was necessary in a note that surgeon Lee signed last year.

“In fact, the note indicated epidural steroids were effective in relieving her pain; she experienced no acute distress, good range of lumbo sacral spinemotion, and normal gait,” Herndon wrote. 

He wrote that most importantly, Lee estimated she would need six steroid injections over the next two years. 

Herndon concluded that convoluted medical records and failure to supplement interrogatory responses satisfied the bad faith exception.

He has set trial next May.    

JULY 7

OCWEN LOAN SERVICING V CONNIE S BURNS, $102,348.02, 3 LINDA VISTA DRIVE, BELLEVILLE, 17CH443.

JULY 10

REVERSE MORTGAGE SOLUTIONS V TONYA STEWARD; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; DERRICK 

GRIFFIN; DORIS GRIFFIN; ALEXANDRIA GRIFFIN; ALEX GRIFFIN III; ALEXIS GRIFFIN; MYESHA GRIFFIN; TAMEKA GRIFFIN; CRYSTAL JONES; ROBERT JONES; DONALD GRIFFIN, JR.; JUWAUN GRIFFIN, $62,990.97, 715 N 68TH STREET, EAST SAINT LOUIS, 17CH445.

COASTAL FINANCIAL LLC V DARREL LUNCEFORD; ROBERT WOODSIDE; STATE OF ILLINOIS; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS; UNKNOWN OCCUPANTS DEFENDANTS, $81,475.12, 27 WEST WASHINGTON STREET, CASEYVILLE, 17CH450.

FREEDOM MORTGAGE CORPORATION V CARL P. HODGES; CAREN L. HODGES; BANK OF AMERICA, $93,041.10, 424 SAN MATEO DRIVE, BELLEVILLE, 17CH448.

WATERFORD PLACE SHILOH HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION V JAMES AND SUZANNE BOLLMEIER, UNNAMED AMOUNT, 2122 CLAIRMONT DRIVE, SHILOH, 17CH446.

JULY 11

FIRST COUNTY BANK V AARON W BAUZA; CITY OF BELLEILLE; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, $120,518.75, 17CH452

JULY 13

WELLS FARGO BANK, NA V TINA AND JOSEPH MCELHATTAN,$137,957.00, 4753 ORLET ROAD, WATERLOO, 17CH457.

MADISON COUNTY FORECLOSURES JUNE 19-JULY 6

JUNE 19TH, 2017

PENNYMAC LOAN SERVICES, LLC V. DEBRESHA DUNCAN; ST. CLAIR COUNTY INTERGOVERNMENTAL GRANTS DEPARTMENT; UNKNOWN OTHERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMAINTS, $83,081.71, 325 W H ST, SWANSEA. 17CH408

REVERSE MORTGAGE SOLUTIONS, INC. V AVILIA ERVIN; CHARLENE SANDERS-SANFORD; LENELL SANDERS-LAGRONE; ALVA JEAN SANDERS-MOSBY; LATOSHA ROBINSON; BERNICE ROBINSON; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA-DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF BERLINE ROBINSON; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS, $71,012.58, 1726 N. 44TH STREET, EAST SAINT LOUIS. 17CH409

WELLS FARGO BANK V NICOLE L. SCHAEFER; BRIAN J SCHAEFER, $200, 849.93, 1039 CATALPA DRIVE, O’FALLON. 17CH410

REGIONS BANK V RAYMOND EGLSEDER AKA RAYMOND M. EGLSLEDER; JACQUELINE EGSLEDER, $29,005.75, 3106 WEST MAIN STREET, BELLEVILLE. 17CH411

JUNE 21, 2017

BROKERS SOLUTIONS, INC. DBA NEW AMERICAN FUNDING V ANTHONY M. VITALE, TAMERA D. VITALE, $115, 909.12, 350 N. AURORA STREET, COLLINSVILLE. 17CH388

JUNE 23RD, 2017

MARKUS EXCAVATING, INC. V ROUTE 15, LLC, SCOTT KARFS, SUSAN KARFS, WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., FIRST NATIONAL BANK IN STAUNTON, $36,855.12, 8105 & 8109 W. ILLINOIS HIGHWAY 15, BELLEVILLE. 17CH421

NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE V SHANNON M. JUENGER, $110, 348.90, 1113 STATE STREET, COLLINSVILLE. 17CH391

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION V UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF WILLIAM R. DOWNEY, WILMA SUE DOWNEY, $110, 55.10, 7729 HUMBERT, GODFREY. 17CH390

DITECH FINANCIAL, LLC V ANDREW H. VANZANDT, MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., $61, 439. 45, 716 VOGE STREET, EDWARDSVILLE. 17CH389

NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE V PATRICK P. SHEPPARD, TRACY A. SHEPPARD, $83,388.23, 1517 MAIN STREET, SOUTH ROXANA. 17CH392

WELLS FARGO BANK V TERRY WORRELL, ELIZABETH WORRELL, $91, 785,32, 1200 2ND STREET, BETHALTO. 17CH393

(Editor's note: This article has been updated to reflect that attorneys George Ripplinger and Patricia Zimmer of Belleville represent Bruce Siddle and Sandra Siddle in litigation at St. Clair County. Attorney Jay Dowling represents Rex Carr's estate, Bruce Carr, and the firm. The Record had reported the reverse representation, and regrets the errors).

SPRINGFIELD – Rex Carr, who won most of his court battles while alive, has won a court battle in death. 

On June 27, Fourth District appellate judges ruled that State Bar Association Mutual Insurance Company must defend Carr’s estate in a malpractice suit. 

The judges found that Carr’s misrepresentation of facts in a policy application for a single year did not void his coverage in following years. 

The judges affirmed Sangamon County Circuit Judge John Schmidt, who granted summary judgment to Carr’s estate and the firm he led. 

The underlying malpractice suit remains pending before St. Clair County associate judge John O’Gara, who plans a status conference on Sept. 25. 

In that suit, Bruce Siddle and Sandra Siddle of Millstadt blame Carr for a $2,160,000 judgment that a Tennessee court entered against them. 

In 2001, Bruce Siddle formed a joint venture between his security training firm, PPCT Management Systems, and a firm named Homeland Security Company. 

Doctor Crants Jr., and Doctor Crants III owned Homeland Security. 

Siddle took 25 percent ownership of their firm, in exchange for turning his firm into a wholly owned subsidiary. 

By 2005, the Siddles began to suspect that Crants and Crants cheated them by favoring other entities they controlled. 

The Siddles retained a Tennessee firm that the late U.S. Senator Howard Baker once led, and resolved the dispute without going to court. 

Crants and Crants agreed to depart, and the Siddles signed releases of all claims. 

One release obligated the parties to file any litigation in Nashville, Tenn. 

The release provided that if any suit should arise, the prevailing party would recover all legal fees and costs. 

Another suit arose in 2008, after the Siddles retained Rex Carr and son Bruce Carr. 

They sued Crants, Crants, and other defendants at U.S. district court in East St. Louis, challenging the validity of the releases they signed. 

In 2009, District Judge Patrick Murphy transferred the case to district court in Nashville. 

“This release agreement was negotiated between two sophisticated businessmen who had known each other for some time,” Murphy wrote. 

“The claim that fraud, coercion, and failure of consideration were involved in the release agreement doesn’t help Siddle.” 

Rex Carr and Bruce Carr filed another suit in East St. Louis two weeks later, with the same claims against other defendants. 

That suit also bounced to Nashville. 

Defendants there moved for summary judgment, and District Judge Aleta Trauger granted it in 2010. 

Sixth Circuit appellate judges affirmed the decision in 2012. 

Defendants then moved to recover legal fees as prevailing parties. 

The motion created a conflict for the Carrs, who withdrew from the case. 

The Siddles retained Tony Duncan of Nashville, who filed a third party complaint seeking to hold the Carrs liable for all fees and expenses. 

The Carrs notified State Bar Mutual Insurance of the complaint, and the insurer asked Sangamon County court to relieve it of any duty to defend them. 

The insurer argued that it wouldn’t have insured Rex Carr if he hadn’t made material misrepresentations in his policy application of 2008. 

The Carrs needed no defense at that point, however, for Trauger dismissed it without prejudice. 

She ruled that the Siddles hadn’t asked for permission to file it. 

In 2013, she found the Siddles jointly and severally liable for $2,159,738.04 in fees and expenses. 

She found Bruce Carr jointly and severally liable for $412,500, and Rex Carr jointly and severally liable for $31,500. 

Rather than request Trauger’s permission to sue the Carrs in Nashville, the Siddles sued them in St. Clair County. 

The Carrs notified State Bar Mutual, which continued to deny its duty to defend. 

The insurer argued that it covered only damages, not legal fees and expenses. 

Judge Schmidt ruled that State Bar Mutual must defend the Carrs, and Fourth District judges agreed. 

Justice Thomas Appleton wrote that, “in the eyes of the law, each renewal of an insurance policy results in a new contract, a new policy.” 

He wrote that under section 154 of Illinois insurance code, misrepresentations in other policies are irrelevant. 

“Plaintiff criticizes this requirement as unfair and against sound public policy, but section 154 says what it says, and we are powerless to rewrite it,” Appleton wrote. 

He wrote that on April 4, 2012, when Rex Carr signed the application, he answered no to a question asking if any claim had been made in the past 12 months. 

He wrote that Carr answered no to a question asking if he became aware of any circumstance that might result in a claim. 

Appleton asked what claim was made that wasn’t reported, or what unreported circumstance Rex Carr became aware of that might result in a claim. 

“The answers to these questions should be front and center in plaintiff’s argument for rescission, but they are not,” he wrote. 

Appleton rejected the argument that the policy did not cover the suit because it applied to damages and not to fees. 

He wrote that the complaint pleads damages including but not limited to the entry of judgment in Tennessee. 

“Unless it is clear that the complaint fails to state any facts that are within, or potentially within, the coverage of the policy, the insurer has a duty to defend the insured,” he wrote. 

Justices Lisa Holder White and James Knecht concurred. 

Gordon Gates of Springfield represented the Carrs at the Fourth District. 

Robert Chemers of Chicago represented State Bar Mutual. 

In the St. Clair County action, George Ripplinger and Patricia Zimmer of Belleville represent the Siddles.
Rex Carr represented himself until his death in 2015. 

Jay Dowling represents his estate, Bruce Carr, and the firm.

BELLEVILLE — A man is suing John Deere for allegedly manufacturing a defective riding lawn mower that caused his father's death.

Dale Sudholt, as independent administrator of the estate of Duane Sudholt, deceased, filed a complaint on June 19 in St. Clair County Circuit Court against John Deere Company, Deere & Company and WM Nobbe and Company Inc., alleging the defendants violated the Wrongful Death Act.

According to the complaint, the plaintiff alleges that on July 29, 2015, Duane Sudholt died while operating a riding lawn mower manufactured by the defendants. The plaintiff claims the lawn mower rolled over and fuel was released or ejected, which ignited and engulfed the decedent in flames. 

The plaintiff alleges the defendants failed to provide adequate devices to prevent fuel leaks in the event of a rollover.

The plaintiff requests a trial by jury and seeks judgment in a sum reasonable and equitable and in excess of $50,000, plus cost of suit and any other further relief the court deems just and proper. 

He is represented by J. Michael Weilmuenster of Weilmuenster & Keck PC in Belleville.

St. Clair County Circuit Court case number 17-L-326

MADISON COUNTY FORECLOSURES JUNE 19-JULY 6

JUNE 19TH, 2017

PENNYMAC LOAN SERVICES, LLC V. DEBRESHA DUNCAN; ST. CLAIR COUNTY INTERGOVERNMENTAL GRANTS DEPARTMENT; UNKNOWN OTHERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMAINTS, $83,081.71, 325 W H ST, SWANSEA. 17CH408

REVERSE MORTGAGE SOLUTIONS, INC. V AVILIA ERVIN; CHARLENE SANDERS-SANFORD; LENELL SANDERS-LAGRONE; ALVA JEAN SANDERS-MOSBY; LATOSHA ROBINSON; BERNICE ROBINSON; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA-DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF BERLINE ROBINSON; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS, $71,012.58, 1726 N. 44TH STREET, EAST SAINT LOUIS. 17CH409

WELLS FARGO BANK V NICOLE L. SCHAEFER; BRIAN J SCHAEFER, $200, 849.93, 1039 CATALPA DRIVE, O’FALLON. 17CH410

REGIONS BANK V RAYMOND EGLSEDER AKA RAYMOND M. EGLSLEDER; JACQUELINE EGSLEDER, $29,005.75, 3106 WEST MAIN STREET, BELLEVILLE. 17CH411

JUNE 21, 2017

BROKERS SOLUTIONS, INC. DBA NEW AMERICAN FUNDING V ANTHONY M. VITALE, TAMERA D. VITALE, $115, 909.12, 350 N. AURORA STREET, COLLINSVILLE. 17CH388

JUNE 23RD, 2017

MARKUS EXCAVATING, INC. V ROUTE 15, LLC, SCOTT KARFS, SUSAN KARFS, WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., FIRST NATIONAL BANK IN STAUNTON, $36,855.12, 8105 & 8109 W. ILLINOIS HIGHWAY 15, BELLEVILLE. 17CH421

NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE V SHANNON M. JUENGER, $110, 348.90, 1113 STATE STREET, COLLINSVILLE. 17CH391

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION V UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF WILLIAM R. DOWNEY, WILMA SUE DOWNEY, $110, 55.10, 7729 HUMBERT, GODFREY. 17CH390

DITECH FINANCIAL, LLC V ANDREW H. VANZANDT, MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., $61, 439. 45, 716 VOGE STREET, EDWARDSVILLE. 17CH389

NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE V PATRICK P. SHEPPARD, TRACY A. SHEPPARD, $83,388.23, 1517 MAIN STREET, SOUTH ROXANA. 17CH392

WELLS FARGO BANK V TERRY WORRELL, ELIZABETH WORRELL, $91, 785,32, 1200 2ND STREET, BETHALTO. 17CH393

June 12, 2017

Belleville

$120,000 - 204 RIO VERDE DRIVE - SALMARTUS OWENS to CALVIN L DYE JR

$87,000 - 1116 SECOND AVE - HEATHER R MCCLAIN to JOHN M AND ROBIN M JUNCH

$131,500 - 108 LAS OLAS DRIVE - TIMOTHY KUEGLER & DAVID GARRETT to RANDY & JULIANE HUCK

$150,000 - 6201 ERIE STATION ROAD - EDWARD R & DENISE D WONDOLOWSKI to DOUGLAS M BAKER & JOYCE BAKER

$62,000 - 227 KANSAS AVENUE - KENNETH KENT MCCOY JR AND DAWN KATHLEEN MCCOY to PATRICK J MCMANUS JR

$13,798 - 1712 SCHEEL STREET - SHERIFF OF ST CLAIR COUNTY to CITY OF BELLEVILLE

$20,339 - 316 EAST B STREET - SHERIFF OF ST CLAIR COUNTY to CITY OF BELLEVILLE

$15,960 - 124 NORTH 15TH STREET - SHERIFF OF ST CLAIR COUNTY to CITY OF BELLEVILLE

$23,081 - 500 SOUTH CHURCH STREET - SHERIFF OF ST CLAIR COUNTY to CITY OF BELLEVILLE

Cahokia

$22,000 - 1421 RICHARD DRIVE - JMP ENDEAVORS LLC to DINO S AND DOROTHY L KASSAROS

Caseyville

$176,000 - 9438 MARBARRY DRIVE - LAURA SMITH to LANCE A BROWN

Fairview Heigts

$$252,000 - 6821 PELHAM MANOR DRIVE - NOAH ANDREW OLDHAM to JOHN E AN MARIA R KRAFT

$90,000 - 9644 OLD LINCOLN TRAIL - BRENT R ANDERSON AND ANNETTE RENEE ANDERSON to RASHONDA A GRAHAM

$73,000 - 9 HYDE PARK ROAD - DARRELL A HULLER to ANDY YON AND CONNIE S YON

$21,000 - 134 ASHLEY DRIVE - ROY D BARNETT AND TOKIKO R BARNETT to ERNEST A DAVIS AND ROSETTA M DAVIS

Freeburg

$305,000 - 8233 PEABODY ROAD - ROBERT G & MICHELLE L FRITZ to BLAKE & AMANDA WHITE

Lebanon

$200,000 - 105 BROOKFIELD DRIVE - GARY N GRIFFIN & CHRISTINE GRIFFIN to CHRISTOPHER G KLUCKER & JULIA C KLUCKER

Mascoutah

$123,000 - 324 SALEM AVENUE - TIMOTHY S FRIEDERICH AND TOSHA A KIDD to LANE HOLCOMB, III AND JENNIFER D. MEFFORD

Millstadt

$201,000 - 13 JOSIAH LANE - MATT FRIZ AND LAURA HIPKINS to CHRISTOPHER L AND ASHLEY M FASCIOLA

O'Fallon

$225 - 101 CARSON DRIVE - WORLD MARTIAL ARTS SCHOOL LLC to WILLIAM E AND LISA M CROCKER

$239,900 - 927 NORTHRIDGE COURT - ROBERT & PRUDENCE KUMMING to GARY DAVIS

$113,000 - 206 WILLOW DRIVE - SHEILA & DONALD PHIPPS to DEREK FINSTER

$121,000 - 807 CYPRESS CT - SMZ CORP to RAYMOND E KEYES AND ASHLEY M FOLTZ

$170,000 - 716 W HWY 50 - ALINA EWA DZIALOWSKI to TERNE NGUYEN AND SOLOMON NGUYEN

Smithton

$230,000 - 5527 ALPINE PLACE DRIVE - JASON BEELER AND TARRAH BEELER to PAUL A. MUNIE AND COURTNEY N MUNIE

SWANSEA

$190,000 - 212 BOURDELAIS DRIVE - YONG SONG ZHANG to SCOTT W AND KERRIE A CRUIKSHANK

June 13, 2017

Belleville

$85,900 - 309 LONGVIEW - ERIC R MUCKENSTURM to JENNIFER L LAQUET
$167,000 - 186 ST SABRE DRIVE - JIRAWAN POOR to DANIEL RYAN DEFOE AND KATYENE MARIE SABATINO
$282,000 - 2249 ARNOLD PALMER DRIVE - CHARLES LURASCHI AND MICHELLE LURASCHI to AARON J PRINCE AND HEATHER L PRINCE
$121,000 - 1416 VICKSBURG DRIVE - DWAYNE A TURNER AND KRISTIN M NOLAN-TURNER to MARC HEMPEN AND SHAKA HEMPEN
$303,000 - 2616 PRO TOUR DR - KEVIN AND KATHY KOSYDOR to DERRICK AND ROBIN HODGES
$137,500 - 2209 MONTEREY DRIVE - ISRAEL FLORES to ANTHONY AND SHARON MAYS
$155,000 - 22 WINDSOR DRIVE - RUTH A KLINGEL TRUSTEE to ROBERT AND TINA THORNBERRY

Caseyville

$38,500 - 7950 SONORA RIDGE - FOREST LAKES ACQUISITIONS LLC to CA JONES INC

Fairview Heights

$202,000 - 5417 DEPAUL - SEAN D KIMMLE AND LISA M KIMMLE to SHAWN M GEPPERT
$112,000 - 11 ESTELLE LANE - MERRILL J 'JACK' GILLUM AND HELEN M GILLUM to JUSTIN T RULE
$225,000 - 801 OLD DOMINION COURT- THOMAS & JEAN DOCTER to MATTHEW & CARRIE RAHL
$162,000 - 125 COREL LANE - MARK BUCKLEY AND DANIEL CAMPBELL to STEVEN RANKS AND KRYSTYNA RANKS
$72,000 - 108 BELLE DRIVE A&B - BETTY J EVANS to RUBICON CREEK FAMILY TRUST
$194,000 - 712 TERRA SPRINGS WAY - PHYLLIS J BAILEY to ANTHONY SCHNEIDER & PHYLLIS SCHNEIDER
$159,900 - 934 NORTHWESTERN AVENUE - TRACIE D PENDELL to LINDSAY A STUART AND CAMERON M STUART

Lebanon

$98,000 - 11259 SPRING MEADOW TRAIL - KENNETH J EISELE to MICHAEL AND MELISSA KIMBRELL

Millstadt

$190,000 - BEIL ROAD - AMBROSIA LAND INVESTMENTS LLC to ROBERT PHILLIPS AND KAREN PHILLIPS

O'Fallon

$448,940 - 420 FLAGSTONE PASS DRIVE LOT 28 RTR-2A - HUNTINGTON CHASE HOMES CORP to MICHAEL J TRIPLETT AND APRIL L TRIPLETT
$215,000 - 833 DEER CREEK ROAD - MICHAEL & MICHLLE DEVINE to STEPHEN & SUSAN DIEHL
$156,000 - 909 JENNA LEE LANE - TORRY C MURRAY AND CRYSTAL JAYNE MURRAY to ERIC LASSMAN
$13,596.51 - 703 E STATE ST - JUDICIAL SALES CORP to JCS ACQUISITIONS LLC AND FRONT PROPERTIES
$40,000 - 703 E. STATE ST. - HOMEFRONT PROPERTIES AND JCS ACQUISITIONS to HOLTGRAVE INVESTMENTS LLC
$550,000 - 5 BRANDONWOOD - JOHN J BOLLWERK JR & BARBARA J BOLLWERK to STEPHEN BOOTH & JENNIFER RIZZOLI
$244,900 - 7057 MILLBROOK LANE - MAX J JOHNSON AND MANDY R JOHNSON to DONNA M SHAW
$620,208 - 405 FLAGSTONE PASS DRIVE - HUNTINGTON CHASE HOMES CORP to SALVATORE J URBANO AND ALLYSON E URBANO
$185,000 - 2130 STREAMWATER COURT - AMANDA JO REARDON to CORY A BRATCHER

Swansea

$46,000 - 1781 AND 1785 OLD PARK LANE - COBBLESTONE PARK LLC to CA JONES INC
$118,000 - 29 VILAGE DRIVE - SHAWN M GEPPERT to RICHARD ANTHONY BISLICH
$375,000 - 1604 NORTH ILLINOIS STREET ET AL - DS HOLDINGS LLC to KLEMME CAPITAL INVESTMENTS LLC
$30,000 - 1515 PIN OAK LANE - FANNIE MAE to LARRY GENE PHINNEY JR AND LORI PHINNEY

June 14, 2017

Belleville

$85,177 - 137 COLUMBUS DRIVE - FANNIE MAE to PATRICIA CAMPBELL

$40,000 - 6101 WARREN - DIPLOMAT PROPERTY MANAGER to GARY W. MURRAY

$234,500 - 2328 FOURLAKES DRIVE - GARY V HORSLEY II to RONALD L HENSARLING AND KERI B ENSARLING

$37,500 - 7201 CARR DRIVE - WELLS FARGO BANK to JANET BABINSKY

Cahokia

$8,000 - 3705 MISSISSIPPI AVE - DEBORAH COVER ON BEHALF OF DOLORES HOLLIDAY ESTATE to RUSSELL SERVICES INC

Fairview Heights

$218,500 - 7341 WOLFRUN TRAIL - FEDERAL HOME LOAN MORTGAGE CORP to FRALANA LATHAM

$70,000 - 4 MECKFESSEL DRIVE -ETHEL M SHIPLEY BY ROGER JILEK ATTORNEY IN FACT to TIMOTHY G TAYLOR

Freeburg

$29,700 - 4848 SHANGNIA ROAD - ESTATE OF DOROTHY M HERZOG to MICHAEL WANGELIN AND CLAUDETTE WANGELIN

Mascoutah

$54,000 - 617 EAST MAIN STREET -FEDERAL HOME LOAN MORTGAGE CORP to JC WILSON JR

Shiloh

$102,000 - 2345 CONIFEROUS DRVIE - EMMA L STEEL to DELORES M REED

June 15, 2017

Belleville

$178,000 - 2928 RENTCHLER ROAD - JULIE DAVID to KURTIS D SCHEICH
$89,000 - 37 MARS DRIVE - RICHARD PING & MARGIE R PING to MARK SIDNEY
$327,600 - 2401 FAIRWAY DRIVE - AARON K STANLEY AND DEANNA STANLEY to ALICIA M LIFRAK
$7,650 - 14 N 15TH STREET - DONNA L'HOTE to CHRISTOPHER HOOLIHAN AND GARY HOOLIHAN

Cahokia

$45,000 - 1130 ST MARGARET - SAINT LOUIS INVESTMENTS to C&R PROPERTIES AND INVESTMENTS
$45,000 - 109 SAINT PAUL DR - SAINT LOUIS INVESTMENTS to C&R PROPERTIES AND INVESTMENTS
$49,000 - 532 ST LEO - SAINT LOUIS INVESTMENTS to ZUNGULA LLC
$39,000 - 23 ST GREGORY DR - SAINT LOUIS INVESTMENTS to GORY LLC
$45,500 - 136 ST ROBERT - SAINT LOUIS INVESTMENTS to ROB ROY LLC
$44,500 - 140 ST PAUL DR - SAINT LOUIS INVESTMENTS to POINT TONE LLC
$45,500 - 1613 MULLENS AVE - SAINT LOUIS INVESTMENTS to PINK LADY LLC
$45,500 - 1517 ANDREWS DR - SAINT LOUIS INVESTMENTS to FATHER ANDREW LLC
$19,500 - 524 SAINT BARBRA LN - WARREN GRIFFIN to CLINTON MCKINNEY

Caseyville

$51,500 - 410 NORTH MAIN STREET - JOEL A GESINK AND MARY A GESINK to AUGUST THOMPSON
$326,524 - 905 THORNRIDGE CT - MCBRIDE & SON RESIDENTIAL ILLINOIS to BRETT L HUTCHERSON AND STEPHANIE L SIMPSON

East St. Louis

$23,000 - 502 N 81ST STREET - SAMYSHA D WILLIAMS to EINCKO MOSLEY AND JUDY C MOSLEY

Lebanon

$25,000 - 112 NORTH HERMAN STREET, 202 N HERMAN ST - ROBERT ROWEN to EDGAR N FLOYD JR
$93,000 - 319 EAST ST LOUIS STREET - ROBERT ROWAN JR to EDGAR N FLOYD JR

Mascoutah

$135,000 - 1029 WEST HARNETT STREET - MARTY R HARDMAN ATTORNEY IN FACT FOR JASON R HARDMAN to DEBORAH J WELLMAN
$290,000 - 1170 LARKSPUR DRIVE - CHADWICK S KEFFER to ROBERT DODSON AND STACY DODSON

Marissa

$35,000 - 305 EAST SPRING STREET - RICHARD SUTTER to MARILYN D SULLIVAN
$60,100 - 707 NORTH BORDERS AVE - US BANK TRUST to RODNEY REDNOUR

Millstadt

$75,000 - 414 WEST HARMON ST - KIM MOECKEL to KURTJ MUSKOPF

O'Fallon

$82,500 - 504 E WASHINGTON - MICAH DERICKSON AND JENNIFER DERICKSON to KRISTOPHER HUNTER
$135,000 - 702 SOUTH CHERRY STREET - RAPID PROPERTY SOLUTIONS to STEVEN J SHIRLEY AND ASHLEY E SHIRLEY
$235,000 - 737 ERICS RUN - ELIZABETH A JOHNSTON to ANDREW C VENNE
$119,500 - 303 EDWARD STREET - MARK A KELLER to FRANK FOSTER MUSSERMANN
$229,000 - 206 CHAMBERLAINS CROSSING - PHB CAPITAL LLC to JEFF & KIRA HESSLER
$264,648 - 1008 RICHLAND PARK DR - MCBRIDE STONE BRIDGE LLC to BONJIOVANNA BONNER AND ELINOR BONNER
$255,000 - 1201 USHER DRIVE - CHRISTOPHER W MEINHART & KEENALYN MEINHART to ERICA KNIEPKAMP & JARED KNIEPKAMP

Smithton

$160,500 - 204 SUNSET DRIVE - KAI K NICKEL to ANDREW & ASHLEY PFEIL

June 16, 2017

Belleville

$145,000 - 36 WESTHAVEN MEADOWS DRIVE - MICHELE J GARCIA to JASON M BROWN AND TIFFANY L BROWN
$32,000 - 416 SOUTH TENTH STREET - DWAIN A BANKS BY CAROL A BANKS HIS ATTORNEY IN FACT to THREE RING PROPERTIES
$121,000 - 1220 EXPRESS DRIVE - RONALD AND DONITA DOBBELARE to KIMLY BURRIS
$138,000 - 3305 SARATOGA DRIVE  - RDS DEVELOPMENT CORP to DESTINEE & NICHOLAS PENIGAR
$85,000 = 5 CHARLOTTE COURT - CHARLOTTE PROPERTY PARTNERS to MICHELE GARCIA

Cahokia

$18,000 - 1703 DORIS AVE - WARREN GRIFFIN to CHARLES DEAN
$9,500 - 244 ST JOHN DRIVE - MONEY TRAIN PROPERTIES to WILMA LLC
$20,000 - 812 PRESTON LANE - JAMES LEE JONES JR AND KAREN A JONES to SDT ABUNDAND STATE LLC
$35,000 - 1164 SMITH STREET - GRAHAM ROSENBERGER AND ELNA ROSENBERGER JOINT REVOCABLE TRUST to SOMETHING NEW LLC
$17,000 - 321 GARDEN STREET - TABLE TOP HOMES LLC to EQUITY TRUST COMPANY CUSTODIAN FBO TAMARA DILLON
$57,000 - 100 ELM STREET - JOSE M DURAN BY CHARLES A DURAN ATTORNEY IN FACT AND GRACEIELA R DURAN to CAROLYN MASON

Caseyville

$535,000 - 1108 FAR OAKS DR - JAMES E ANDERSON AND JOELLEN ANDERSON to MICHAEL HOWENSTEIN AND CHRISTY HOWENSTEIN
$20,000 - 520 RICH STREET - LEONARD BLACK AND DORIS A BLACK to TOWN & COUNTRY PROPERTY ACQUISITIONS LLC

Centreville

$31,525 - 1307 ST RAPHAEL STREET - CRYSTAL DIXON to SAINT LOUIS INVESTMENTS LLC
$15,000 - 807 MILDRED AVE - AL'STAX LIENS TAX DEEDS RECOVERY LLC to MARK A DEGG

Collinsville

$107,000 - 602 HOECKER DRIVE - MICHAEL WATT to JOANN ANTHONY
$115,950 - 25 WOODLAND DRIVE - ROBERT W CROFT III AND STEPHANIE M CROFT to MAKENNA WALTERS AND TAMARA BROWN
$236,500 - 234 KEENELAND CT - BARBARA K RIEDER to LORRIE F COOK

East St. Louis

$108,500 - ROCK SPRINGS ROAD, 6670 BUNKUM ROAD - RALPH STANLEY to CASEYVILLE TRANSFER STATION LLC
$8,000 - 8201 BOUL STREET - LEVEL FIELD SPREAD LLC to DARYN M FOSTER

Fairview Heights

$141,000 - 9624 RIDGE HEIGHTS ROAD - KAREN M RAY to CLYDE E WILLIAMS AND AMANDA WILLIAMS

Freeburg

$128,900 - 610 ADELE STREET - THE ESTATE OF EVELYN LANNERT to MARGARET LEWIS

Mascoutah

$181,500 - 552 FALLING LEAF WAY - TRAVIS L MCMANUS AND ARIELLE M MCMANUS to SHARON HOSLER

Marissa

$85,000 - 616 STATE ROUTE 13 - ANDREW & KELLI CANNING to JAMES R CANNING JR & LAVON CANNING

O'Fallon

$283,700 - 1088 RICHLAND PARK DRIVE #18B - STONE BRIDGE VILLAS LLC to WARREN & DOLORES HAMPTON
$268,000 - 309 BENEDICTINE COURT - JERRY L LLEONARD AND REBECCA J LEONARD to DARREN J FULTS AND AMY C FULTS
$150,500 - 13 VANDERBILT PLACE - MORGAN  A SLACK AND JASON A SLACK to JASON BOONE
$262,000 - 548 GLEN OAK DRIVE - CHARLES B HOTCHKISS AND ELIZABETH D HOTCHKISS to DAVID STAWARSKI
$228,000 - 1108 DANZIG DRIVE - JOHN AMENN to CARLA & JOSEPH REDMOND
$224,779 - 412 VANCROFT PLACE - BARNES PROPERTIES to JOANNE M DUKESHIRE AND GUY B POTUCEK
$235,000 - 153 PICKETTS RUN - STEPHEN HEINRICH & INGRID HEINRICH to DAVID CHRISTY JR & KELLY CHRISTY
$216,900 - 928 SILVERKUNK DRIVE - JEFFREY M LIND AND BETH LIND to JONATHAN DURHAM

Smithton

$180,000 - 4400 WILDHORSE ROAD - DEBRA M BOHM to PARIS ROSENBERG

Swansea

$375,000 - 3316 WHISTLING COVE - MICHAEL BALL to CARL MCDOWELL
$188,190 - VACANT LAND ON RAVENEL - B&D DEVELOPMENT to D&F CONTRACTING INC

June 19, 2017

Belleville

$5,000 - 1809 SPRUCE HILL DR - BARBARA AND HOWARD CROCKER to YOSHIKO JOHNSON
$175,000 - 3041 WYE OAK DRIVE - DENNIS AND MILISSA CRAIN to LANCE AND MELISSA ISENHOUR
$350,000 - 9618 W. MAIN STREET - M E&E TRADING LLC to MAC'S CONVENIENCE STORES LLC
$125,000 - 5 DAHLIA LANE - SOUTH ILLINOIS TRUST to BRADLEE AND SARAH REA
$229,900 - 508 SPRINGWOOD DRIVE - CHRISTOPHER AND BRITTNEY ODLE to JAMES AND CINDY SCHRADER
$50,000 - 1709 JAY STREET - ANTHONY THOMPSON to LOIS E RYAN
$116,000 - 221 SHERATON DRIVE - DENETRIA Y MCDANIELS to JACQUELYN FIASAGA AND ERIK FISAGA
$42,400 - XXX FRANK SCOTT PARKWAY WEST - TIMOTHY E LERCH AND HELEN M MARTOUS to FOLEY PARK FARMS LAND TRUST W-367 BY DAVID M THRELKELD

Collinsville

$10,000 - 2907 BLACK LANE - MARIA VILLEGAS to DOMINICK CECIL BUFFO
Dupo

$126,500 - 390 TRANSPOINT DRIVE - WRUBCO DEVELOPMENT LLC to IVA PROPERTIES LLC

East St. Louis

$35,000 - 1201 NORTH 89TH STREET - HENRY HILL to GOLDEN PROPERTIES INC

Fairmont City

$15,000 - 2743 N 41ST ST - RENE MUNOZ to INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALE

Freeburg

$377,872 - 120 TALL MAPLE COURT - DANE AND SHANNON BRUEGGEMANN to CNR INC.

Mascoutah

$189,900 - 1144 BEECHCRAFT BOULEVARD - CAROL J CRONIN REVOCABLE TRUST to BRETT AND KRISTAL HOTTENROTT
$199,900 - 1123 LEAR LANE - WESLEY AND KELLY AMERSON to NEW TRADITION HOMES LLC

New Athens

$63,000 - 915 S MILL STREET - DYLAN S SMITH to CAROL NADLER

O'Fallon

$227,500 - 1214 BOSSLER LANE - JOHNATHAN AND AMY WEST to WILLIAM AND WANDA ROEWE
$205,000 - 1125 CREEKSIDE COURT - ROBERT D MILLER to SEABORN JONES WHATLEY III AND APRIL E WHATLEY
$350,000 - 1000 ALEXANDREA COURT - WYNTON AND SUSAN HODGES to BRANDON AND STEFFANIE SOLBERG
$399,000 - 1627 MARY TODD LANE - SAMAR E MAALOUF TRUST to GREGORY AND MARILEE BAYUS
$272,000 - 816 BRIDGEWAY DRIVE - THANIA TRISKA to KRISTEN REINEKE-PIPER AND JARED PIPER

Shiloh

$210,000 - 1705 FAIRWAY DRIVE - JAMESON A KECK to GERTRUDE AND NORBERT ARENTSEN TRUSTS
$290,000 - 22 RAVEN OAK DRIVE - JAMES AND CINDY SCHRADER to LEOVA F PELC, BY DARYL G PELC & BRAD G PELC, HER ATTORNEYS IN FACT

Summerfield

$28,500 - 308 W PEEPLES ST - ANTHONY J EMIG to VA

Swansea

$290,000 - 4164 BIVERTON DRIVE - GREG AND MARILEE BAYUS to CPR PROPERTIES LLC
$83,000 - 6 CLINTON HILL DRIVE - JONATHAN L ROBINSON to DOMINIC SANTOMASSIMO

June 1, 2017

ALTON

$26,899- 3232 HAWTHORNE BLVD- NATHAN GILREATH TO SECRETARY OF HUD

$62,000-231 ARBOR DR.-NICK AUFFARTH TO CHRIS A. HOWARD

$219,900-622 E 15TH ST.- XAVIER MENARD TO KEVIN AND MARY HAMILTON

$390,000-230 REGIONAL DRIVE-BEMIS PROPERTIES TO JAMES AND PATRICIA SHAW

EDWARDSVILLE

$112,500- 1446 EBERHART AVE.-THE KEY KEEPER LLC TO BRIAN NELSON

$140,000-4347 OLD BOHM SCHOOL RD.-AMANDA FISHER TO JAMES M. KRAPF AND KATHLEEN FERGUSON

$200,000- 810 LANCASHIRE DR.-NINA LOGAS TO PAULA NOEL

EAST ALTON

$106,000-223 CARDOT-JARROD AND SHERRI PIAR TO DONALD AND BARBARA EDWARDS

$106,000-551 MCHUGH-JARROD AND SHERRI PIAR TO DONALD AND BARBARA EDWARDS

$72,500-408 WASHINGTON AVE.-ANITA SANDER TO STACY LYNN TIERNEY

GODFREY

$67,200-2720 GROVELIN UNIT C2-CARA JACOBS TO MICHAEL AND LINDA FUNK

GRANITE CITY

$20,600- 2415 WASHINGTON AVE.-JAMES CAIN TO SECRETARY OF HUD

$43,200-2721 MARYVILLE RD-STEPHEN VARDELL TO KAJA HOLDINGS LLC

$66,500-30 WILSON PARK DR.-JASON AND AMY HALDAMAN TO AMANDA DIONEDA

$86,490-119 ELMER ST.-ROBERT LEMMON TO FANNIE MAE

$117,000 -2564 WATERMAN AVE- MICHAEL P. PALMANI AND BETHANY A. PALMANI TO GARNETT MORAN

$169,900- 115 RIVIERA DR.- LORNE P. LAMBERT TO BRIAN ROPAC

TROY

$341,000-1512 ESSEX PL.- LINDA FELTMEL-SEDELACEK TO ROBBIE PRIMEAUX

WOOD RIVER

$54,000-801 E. PENNING AVE.-DENISE RODGERS TO JANE HANSEL

$233,400-2814 ROCK HILL RD.-RANDY AND SUSAN MEREDITH TO 2727 ROCK HILL

JUNE 2, 2017

ALTON

$40,500-528 E BROADWAY-MATRIX OPERATING COMPANY TO AARON AGNE

$86,000- 2111 RIDGE DR.-DAVID TOLLIVER TO HOSFELT JOINT TRUST AGREEMENT

COLLINSVILLE

$55,000- 3529 HOOVER DR.- KAZ BC JOHNSON-WILLIAM KINKEL

$107,000- 225 WINDRIDGE DR.- LINDA PREHN TO NICOLE JENKINS

$115,000- 105 MIDDLEGATE LANE- WILLIAM H WURTZ JR EXECUTOR TO LIBBIE AND PAUL LAUBENTHAL

$118,200- 1024 W CLAY ST- NATHAN AND ELIZABETH LOWN TO MARC MARES AND REBECCA TORREZ

$150,000-1465 N KEEBLER RD-STEVEN AND JULIE GOWER TO RANDY AND SANDRA MANN

$160,000- 637 HIGH SCHOOL ST- DONALD P OSBORN, TRUSTEE TO THOMAS AND KELSEY HUSON

$178,000-700 OSTLE- MICHAEL QUINLAN, SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE TO SCOTT AND REBECCA KAUFMANN

$250,000- 16 BURDICK CREEK ROAD- COLIN CARSON & LAURA H. SMITH TO LUTHERAN SENIOR

SERVICES

EDWARDSVILLE

$38,000 -LINCOLN ST-ASCHLEY W. MATHEW TO M. STEPHEN TAYLOR

$95,000-1254 LINDENWOOD AVE-LANETTE AN DONALD BOLL TO SETH DISTLER

$525,000 – 5056 OLD CARPENTER ROAD-LEAH A. OGLE & DAVID M. OGLE TO KYLE AND ANDREA BETTS

GLEN CARBON

$200,000-142 SPRING BROOK DR-THERESE ROMAN TO LORI EDER

$270,000-7133 RICHMOND DRIVE-REMINGTON PROPERTIES TO AARON AND TRISHA GRANDIDIER

GODFREY

$97,000-408 SATURN DR-RICHARD G SEVERA TO TYLER MICHAELS

GRANITE CITY

$36,500-2320 DELMAR AVE-BAYVIEW LOAN SERVICING TO DIANA SANDOVAL-ALCARAZ AND JESUS VALVERDE-BANOS

$242,500-31 OAKLAWN DRIVE-GEROLD MYATT TO BRUCE AND PATTI EVANS

$111,000- 4 NIGHTINGALE COURT- CLIFFORD . PARKS AND SHARON K. PARKS TO WISE CHOICE PROPERTIES, INC

HAMEL

$260,000-456 COOK AVE-JARED AND DANA SUHRE TO AARON AND MARY HINES

HIGHLAND

$93,500-533 LEMON ST-MARIE THOLE TO MARCIA REED

$95,500-2200 BROADWAY-JARED NORMAN TO NATHANIEL AND EMILY DEMPSEY

$115,000-1223 OAK ST-BREYANA STEIN AND DEREK PEARCE TO DONALD REYNOLDS AND MICHELLE JONES

*$172,000-2 CARDINAL LANE-THOMAS AND TRICIA NEWTON TO TROY AND SHANNON NEAL (2 PROPERTIES)

$200,000-5536 OAK ST-CRAIG AND CECILE SMITH TO JASON AND SARAH MILLER

PONTOON BEACH

$8,000-4001 KASEBURGE LANE-EDWARD PERIGAN TO VILLAGE OF PONTOON BEACH

TROY

$167,700- 104 MARY DR- KENNETH AND PATRICIA PHILLIPS TO THERESE ROMAN

$261,722.90-1968 GLIDDON BLVD-DAVID LAMMER AND JANET LAMMER TO RESOURCE CONTRUCTION CO LLC

$325,000 -604 EDWARDSVILLE ROAD-606 EDWARDSVILLE ROAD LLC TO RYAN LEWIS

$315,000-1240 CHALMERS DR-HARTMAN HOMES TO JOHN AND AMY HEAD

WOOD RIVER

$64,500- 67 E. PENNING AVE.-MICHAEL GLEASON TO LOIS A. AND AARON G. JONES

$80,840-213 SUMMIT HILL DR-SECRRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT TO TILLER HOLDINGS LLC

JUNE 6

ALTON

$1,000-1955 BROWN STREET-KYLE DOOLEY TO KEVIN GERHARDT

$84,000-227 W DELMAR AVE-ROBERT WATSON TO DONNA GARRETT

$85,500-3706 WICKENHAUSER AVE-SANDRA SCHWAB TO WILLIAM DENOTHER

$83,000-1610 LANGDON ST-DANIEL KILFOY TO CASSIE MCFADDEN

$133,200-1 FOREST DR-ESTATE OF GREGORY S RUTTGER TO ANNIE BOLEY

BETHALTO

$82,500-327 W CORBIN ST-MATTHEW FINGERUT TO CARLIN DEPEW

COLLINSVILLE

$129,500-13 HOLIDAY DR-GREGORY FRANK TO ALYSSA COWAN AND JARED MCFARLAND

$130,000-620 LASALLE STREET-JOHN AND JODY HOLMAN TO ANTOINETTE VALENT-SPRUNT

EDWARDSVILLE

$82,000-1355 LEE DR-WILLIAM ARTH, THE ARTH TRUST TO RANDALL MOORE

$145,000-8644 PIN OAK RD-KIMBERLY AND RUSSELL MNCE TO NATALIE KERR

$175,100-212 N MERIDIAN ROAD-ADAM AND DANIELLE RAMSEYER TO DOUGLAS AND JULIE NITZ

$142,000-7342 PIN OAK DRIVE-GEORGE WALLACE TO FRED AND LOU ANN TREBLING

$149,900-900 HOLIDAY POINT PARKWAY-BRENT AND MELISSA BUCKNER TO SCOTT AND EMILY RADECKI

$227,000-226 E UNION ST-THOMAS AND TAMARA SALTER TO JAMES AND SHANNON DENSON

$271,500-5323 MILLENIUM COURT-THOMAS AND SANDY DETIENNE TO AARON AND DANIELLE MCCOY

$364,000-5323 HAZEL ROAD-ROBERT AND TIFFANY WILLIAMS TO WILLIAM AND JENNIFER MCNEILL

$310,000-104 EMERALD HILLS DRIVE-THOMAS COOLBAUGH TO MICHAEL AND KETRA CROSS

GLEN CARBON

$145,000-70 S MEADOW LN-VICTORIA ALEXANDER TO TONI WILKE

$385,000-6150 STONE WOLFE DR-KEVIN SCHARFF AND HOLLY WINSTON TO GREGORY AND DANIELLE PRISH

GODFREY

$115,000-5017-3 RIER AIRE SOUTH-KENNETH SPELLS-RACHEL WETZEL

$129,200-5517 LA MOTTE LN- TO GARRETT TEPEN AND ALEXIS BOLLINGER

GRANITE CITY

$12,500-1821 SPRUCE ST-US BANK TO ERIKA GONZALEZ

$38,000-1302 EDWARDSVILLE ROAD-MARJORIE AUSTIN TO CESAR GARCIA

$56,500-1721 FERGUSON AVENUE-GEORGE MILLSAP TO NAOMI HUNT

$58,000-110 BRIARHAVEN DRIVE-JOSHEPH AND PAULA PRICE TO MELISSA LOREE HOTZ

$59,000-2818 PERSHING BLVD-KALEEN JOHNSTON TO KELLY PADGETT

$70,000-3208 MARYLAND RD-SCHULTE KUHLMAN INVESTMENTS INC TO JASON’S ICE CRÈME, INC.

$105,000-2257&2259 WASHINGTON AVE-DOUGLAS AND SUSAN SCHULTE TO JASON’S ICE CRÈME INC.

$145,000-9 TERRACE LN-LYN MULLINS TO FRANKLIN ATKINS

HAMEL

$137,500-105 COLONIAL DR-SANDRA HUBER TO JEFFREY S PHILLIPS

HIGHLAND

$216,000-3324 STATE ROUTE 160-MICHAEL AND ETTA DALTON TO MATTHEW AND CELENA DAVIS

MARYVILLE

$51,900-1851 APPLETON CT-REMINGTON PLACE, LLC TO MUSEC HOMES, INC.

$166,000-6745 E MAIN ST-BETH PARISH TO DREW AND DEBBIE PAGANUCCI

ST. JACOB

$146,000-110 JACOB STREET-RODGER AND KIRA CARPER TO WOODROW SHADID AND LUANN SCHROCK-SHADID

$385,239-8932 INDIAN CREEK-RESOURCE CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, LLC TO LARS AND LAUREN VARDAMAN

TROY

$48,500-9011 S BLUE HAVEN DR-SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT TO JEREMY LEITSCCHUH

$212,000-209 SUNNBROOKE-BRIAN AND JESSICA SANCHEZ TO ANDREW AND ALEXANDRA HOOD

$747,600-CASTLE RIDGE DRIVE

WOOD RIVER

$88,200-1801 ROCK HILL RD-AMANDA MILLER TO TANNER FINK

JUNE 7

ALTON

$30,000-2300 OAKHURST DR-DENNIS SCROGGINS TO JONATHAN SCOGGINS

$80,000-3421 LINCOLN STREET-DAVID AND LAUREN SCOTT TO TYLER AND EMILY LONG

BETHALTO

$119,000-302 ALBERS PL-LINDA YOUNG TO DAVID MOLOHAN

$157,500-174 N OLD BETHALTO RD-DOROTHY GRANATO TO LUCINDA KLOTZ

COLLINSVILLE

$36,750-109 COURTLAND PLACE-DIAMANTE CAPITAL, LLC TO COURTLAND SERIES, DD HOLDINGS LLC

$130,000-135 SUMMER BLVD-ALVIN AND PAULA KORBER TO KIMBERLY PURCELL

$368,000-5 SCOTCH PINNE ST-ROBERT AND JO MOUNTS TO LATASHA JACKSON

$380,000-955 LONGHI ROAD-ELIZABETH BAUER TRUSTEE TO LUKE POLETTI

EAST ALTON

$69,900-122 WESTERHOLDT STREET-KAREN TRIMM, PAMELA GORDON, TARA NELSON TO CHRISTIAN MUNDY

$95,900-826 AMHERST DR-TCS I, LLC TO MICHAEL AND STEPHANIE QUINN

EDWARDSVILLE

$122,900-223 WOODLAND DR-DENNIS AND SANDRA VANSANDT, TRUSTEES TO VICTORIA ALEXANDER

$258,000-695 BOULEVARD DE CANNES-LARRY DALLAS TO SHAUN DILTZ

$265,000-5288 MILLENIUM CT-ERIC AND CHRISTINE LOYLE TO MATTHEW AND ANDREA REDENIS

$310,000-101 BURNS FARM COURT W-RONALD BROWN, TRUSTEEE TO JEFFREY AND TAMARA NOLL

$352,500-7042 KOUFAX COURT-WILLIAM AND ANGELA GREGOZESKI TO JERRY AND KANISHA CHAVERS

$699,000-1201 S OXFORDSHIRE LANE-WILLIAM AND REBECCA CHAPEL TO GREGORY AND STACY SAYUK

GODFREY

$85,000-715 RAMONA PL-DAVID RINTOUL REVOCABLE TRUST TO SHARON ORR

$110,000-1302 NORMANDY DR-SHARON ORR- RICHARD AND SANDRA SEVERA

$128,000-3600 VALLEY DR-RONALD LINENFELSER TO NATHAN POSTLEWAIT

$177,000-7321 EASTWIND-DONNA GARRETT TO CHARLES ALIGHOLI

GRANITE CITY

$10,000-2605 LOGAN ST-DON HAYES TO CHARLES AND RHONDA YARBER

$82,500-2625 DONALD CT-TERRI L SCHMIDT TO MATTHEW AND SARAH MACKO

$21,100-3019 MARSHALL AVE-GCS CREDIT UNION TO STEVEN WILLIAMS

MADISON

$2,000-666 MCCAMBRIDGE-CITY OF MADISON-ILLINI REAL ESTATE HOLDINGS, LLC

MANNE

$65,500-MARINE ROAD-KEITH AND CRYSTAL BRADLEY TO MICHAEL AND JANET HAMILTON

MARINE

$49,000-3521 DINGOES RUN-CHRIS FLAUGHER TO GLEN FOSTER

MARYVILLE

$198,000-924 WOODLAND DR-SUSAN  AND EDWARD STEWART TO MICHAEL MEYER AND KELLY BLANDINA

$680,000-2709 N CENTER ST-GREG GRINTER TO RETAIL PLACE LLC

$342,000-1526 PLEASANT RIDGE RD-JOHN AND BELINDA ITALIANO TO CURT AND JANE BAKER

ST JACOB

$200,000-10530 ELLIS ROAD-JAMI TORRIN AND MARK WAGNER TO RODGER AND KIRA CARPER

TROY

$85,000-26 LONGSHOT DR-KEVIN BOSCERT TO KYLE WESEMEYER

$313,000-412 CHAMBERLAIN DR-SPENCER HOMES LLC TO CHRISTOPHER FLAUGHER

$433,967-34 BULLSEYE DR-REMINGTON PROPERTIES, LLC TO CHRISTOPHER WOLVERTON

WOOD RIVER

$108,500-420 CRESTVIEW DR-SARAH JONES TO EVERETT FINANCIAL

$130,500 -214 BIG BEND DRIVE-DEAN AHLEMEYER TO CHRISTOPHER AND CYNTHIA FLETCHER

JUNE 8

ALTON

$85,000-3429 MERIDOCIA ST- RAY COMBS TO LONIE HINTON

COLLINSVILLE

$122,000-702 DOONER DRIVE-MICHAEL AND RANDI MCSPADDEN TO TARA PERRY AND BRIAN DEASON

$85,000-101 RAINBOW DRIVE-BARTON G FERRELL AND TRACY HOWERTER, TRUSTEES TO DARRELL AND VICKY CAWVEY

GLEN CARBON

$324,000-204 BRAMBLEWOOD CT-JOSHEPH AND ELIZABETH PARENTE TO SEAN GAGNON

GODFREY

$1,500-COTTONWOOD DR-ALBERT WALKER TO WILLIAM GARRISON

MADISON

$100-1524 4TH ST-NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE TO ALICIA SHARP

MARINE

$97,500-314 LUBECK STREET-CHAD DOCKSTADER TO ZACHARY PEASE

MARYVILLE

$84,500-903 WESTWOOD DR-REGIONS BANK TO DAVID EILERING

WORDEN

$494,000-1843 SEXTANT DR-CHRISTOPHER AND JOANNA POLLOCK TO JAMES AND META CATHCART

JUNE 12

ALTON

$61,000-3203 TORCH CLUB RD-JEFFREY AND SUSAN BARTLETT TO MARK AND BRENDA SMTH

$28,000-324 LINDENWOOD BLVD-WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, D/B/A CHRISTIANA TRUST TO PEARL ASSETS LLC

BETHALTO

$117,000-BETHALTO RD-SAGE CREEK DEVELOPMENT LLC TO ERIC M KOPSIE

COLLINSVILLE

$115,000-21 SUSAN COURT-CHRISTOPHER AND MICHELLE CAMILLO- GREG KUZEL

$126,700-302 GOETHE AVE-NATHAN AND SACHA SANDER TO COREY MARTIN

$132,500-717 SUMMIT AVE-COREY AND ANDREA JOHNSTON TO JEFF HENRY AND LAURA HIMSTEDT

$131,500-7 CHAPEL CT-JAMES AND JUANITA LOYET TO COREY AND AMANDA JOHNSTON

$218,000-105 NORTHIEW DRIVE-MARY E TAYLOR, TRUSTEE TO RICHARD AND GLENNA GRAB

EAST ALTON

$141,900-602 FLORDIA DR-VICKI L STROUD, SURVIVING JOINT TENANT TO BRIAN WISEMAN

EDWARDSVILLE

$120,000-508 RANDLE STREET-JAMES WHITEFORD TO THE KEY KEEPER LLC

$299,000-207 SMOLA WODDS COURT-C & N PROPERTIS TO JAMES AND MEGAN SMITH

$50,000-7940 GREEN HEDGE RD-TERRY AND MARY ANN FAGAN TO WAYNE AND DEBBIE REINNECK

GLEN CARBON

$197,950-112 BAYFIELD DRIVE-AARON AND DANIELLE FRIES TO CHRISTOPHER SCHMIDT AND MELISSA EHLEN

$198,500-35 LOU JUAN DRIVE-KARLA S SIMPSON, TRUSTEE TO MINGSHAO ZHANG

GRANITE CITY

$69,900-3217 RODGER AVE-CALEB DAVIS TO CHRISTY DIMA

HIGHLAND

$173,000-330 NOTTINGHAM-SHERRI GEIGER TO SCOTT SCHMITT

$143,000-2412 W LAKE DR-ALLEN MILLER TO STEPHANIE GRANT

$144,900-12 KAESER CT-DWIGHT D RUTZ REVOCABLE LIVING TRUST TO VERA L HENSCHEN TRUST

$245,000-13329 FAWN CREEK RD-MARK VOLLMER CONSTRUCTION TO STEVEN AND KATHLEEN MANCINAS

$830,000-ST. ROSE ROAD-AUCTION SALE MADISON COUNTY TO WALTER AND MARY FREY, KENT AND CARLA KNACKSTEDT, MICHACL AND THERESA ZOBRIST, TERENCE AND TNA ISAAK

MARINA

$274,500-923 VIRGINIA DR-JEFFREY CAGLE TO JOHN LANGDON

MARYVILLE

$147,000-6812 HAMPSHIRE CT-KELLY LAPEIRE TO LYNN MULLINS

TROY

$135,000-316 ORCHARD CT-AMERICAN ESTATE AND TRUST FBO PAUL GRIMM IRA TO BRANDON AND TROY WARD

$290,000-273 HARBOR MILL DRIVE-ROY KOBERNA, TRUSTEE AND DIANE KOBERNA TO BRIAN AND SUE LYNN ROPAC

JUNE 13

ALTON

$45,000-506 BOND ST-MURPHY FAMILY TRUST TO JOSEPH GOTLOB

$154,900-108 CEDAR LN-ROCKFORD AND JUDY DARE TO KENNETH D SPARROWK

$172,000-4843 AZALEA PL-WILLIAM D TARRANT TO JANICE ROTHE

$19,000-1223 E 6TH ST -US BANK TO ARTHUR POWELL

$1,394,000 -2901 HOMER M ADAMS-DG PARTNERS LLC TO OPIO LLC

BETHALTO

$127,000-34 LEE ST-

EAST ALTON

$50,000-120 TOMLINSON ST-SAM J STASSI TO EDWARD BRINKLEY

$82,500-607 BROOKWOOD DR-TIMOTHY THOMPSON, TRUSTEE OF BILLY THOMPSON TRUST TO HANNAH BALLARD

EDWARDSVILLE

$247,500-2949 E MICK RD-STEVEN AND DEBORAH LARSEN JOINT TRUST TO STEPHEN HOLMES

GODFREY

$25,000-1208 WHITE OAK TRL-OAKS AT DEER CREEK LAND COMPANY, LLC TO EDMUND MORRISSEY DECLARATION OF TRUST

GRANITE CITY

$22,000-2413 ADAMS ST-GCS CREDIT UNION TO BILL GAEDE JR

$32,400-2961 IOWA ST-KIMBERLY ARGUELLES TO KENNETH JOHNSON

$41,000-2511 IOWA STREET-LESTER AND KAREN THOMPSON TO BRIAN RAY KEMP

HIGHLAND

$29,000-12932 MAPLE ST-LINDA REED N/K/A LINDA SEITZ TO GARY AND PATRICIA BURROWS

$95,000-1323 LAUREL ST-BRIAN TEBBE TO STEVEN T MIFFLIN

$150,000-801 9TH ST-JENNIFER FLATH N/K/A JENNIFER LIBBRA TO MINDY AND BRETT CASTRO

$168,000-90 ARBOR CREST DR-ARLEN AND BARBARA BAKER TO TIFFANY WATERS

$191,000-145 FALCON DR-RYAN THOMAS AND COURTNIE ANNA MULLEN TO DONNA GRIM

$199,900-330 KINGSBURY CT-TYLER AND JESSICA RUETER TO SHANE AND ARIANA TAYLOR

MADISON                                           

$32,000-1213 MADISON AVE-CHEYENNE BUNETA TO JACK’S FOREVER INC.

POCAHONTAS

$28,000-4601 LAUREN DR-JUSTIN M BOLK TO NICHOLAS RICHARD DALE HOWARD

ST JACOB

$400,000-9817 BEACON STREET-

WOOD RIVER

$113,000-502 S 7TH ST-BERNELDA P BURNEY SJT OF WILLIAM G BURNEY TO WILLIAM BUELOW

$129,000-115 LINTON STREET-BRIAN HOLMES AND TANYA FOX TO ZAYNE AND KENDRA STINSON

$136,500-115 CRESTVIEW DR-3 RIVERS GROUP LLC TO STACY COOPER

JUNE 14

ALTON

$3,000-200 MOUNIER ST-LAND SALES, INC. TO GENT FUNERAL HOME, INC

$119,000-4432 WEDGEWOOD DR-DANNY E JOUETT, HEIR OF HAROLD E JOUETT TO JARROD TAYLOR MERMIS

$127,000-14 COURTESY LN- DONNA HEDIN TO ADAM SCANNELL

$145,000-909 MCKINLEY BLV-ROBERT LAWSON TO MARY BRINKOETTER

BETHALTO

$46,000-464 SHERIDAN ST-FALLON OVERMEYER TO GWENDOLYN PROUGH

$74,900-411 WILLIAMS ST-KEVIN TAYLOR TO DEBRA SMITH

$80,000-439 S PRARIE ST-AARON D SHAW TO BRIAN SHAW

$92,000-347 MILL ST-JEREMY WATTERS TO ASHLEY MCBRIDE

COLLINSVILLE

$88,000-99 GUINZY HL-LESLIE WAGNER TO KIM MULLANEY

$99,900-1192 WICKLIFFE AVE-SHANE AND SHANNON MORGAN TO KOTY AND CHRISTY WHITAKER

EAST ALTON      

$30,000 -117 WHITELAW AVE- CAROL LAYNE INDEPENDENT ADMINISTRATO ESTATE OF LEONA FAYE BENEFICEL TO GLORIA DOOLEN

EDWARDSVILLE

$110,000 -117 FRANKLIN AVE-BRUCE AND CONNIE GERSTENECKER TO MEGAN MURPHY

$122,000-604 MONTCLAIRE AVE-ANTHONY BOBROWSKI TO ALEXANDER WILL

$155,000-1433 RANDLE ST-LOREN R EARLY TO ALFRED DUNAWAY II

$132,500 -1904 CORNELL AVE-KATHERINE BOUMAN TO SHANA MICHELLE KNIGHT                                           

$189,000-1216 OAKLAND AVENUE-KWAME J ROSS TO RICHARD GRODEON AND TAMARA GRAMMER

$218,000-1211 GLOUCESTER DR-WALTER AND SHIRLEY OTTO TO CHARLES BAILEY

$290,000 -1332 GERBER WOODS DR-KENT AND BEH CUSTER TO MARY CUSACK                                  

$292,000-3426 WILDERNESS DR-JASON E BRADLEY TO REBECCA SARABIA

$494,100-10 NORTH SHORE DRIVE-DIANA BOSTON TO KENT AND SUSAN SMITH

$750,000-3 COUNTRY CLUB LN-CHRISTOPHER J SCHAEFFER TRUSTEE TO RICHARD CHRISTOPHER DREW TRUSTEE OF THE RICHARD CHRISOPHER DREW REVOCABLE TRUST

GODFREY

$102,500=4717 DADRIAN CT-HEIRS OF HELEN M SCHMITT TO ROBERT ESTES

$124,000-2608 EAU CLAIRE AVE-NIKOLE BOWEN TO RYAN GOVREAU

GLEN CARBON

$410,000-121 FOREST GROVE DRIVE-JENNIFER AND DAN HINKLE TO JONATHAN AND ASHLEY CROSS

$106,000 -14 PADDOCK-ROBERT AND ZACHARY BARRETT TO ANNA FAGEN          

$235,000 -9 SANTA ANITA DRIVE- WILLIAM GRAY EXECUTOR OF THE ESTATE OF NORMA SAMS TO NATHAN AND SACHA SANDER

$341,250 -119 OAKSHIRE DR W- D GAWAIN AND MEGAN PIPER TO DON AND SARAH CONOYER                                  

GRANITE CITY

$65,500-6 CHARLESTON CIRCLE-CHARLES AND DONNA MARIE ENZWILLER TO KYLE PENROD

$75,000-1255 LEE STREET-THOMAS AND DEBORAH ANN TALLEY TO MANUEL FOSCHIATTI AND DEBRA ROUTT

$135,000-2320 ARNOLD DRIVE-MICHAEL WURSTER AND DENA SULIEMAN TO MATTHEW AND JAMIE WRIGHT

MARYVILLE

$205,500-1025 ROBERT DR-JOHN AND JANICE ASHBROOK TO RICHARD HAYS

$259,900-34 OAK LEAF DR-BART G MILLER TO KIRK WILLIAM KRUMMP

ROXANA

$25,850-149 E 5TH ST-JCS ACQUISITIONS, LLC TO WANDA JOCKISCH

SOUTH ROXANA

$122,500-1214 HERBERT AVENUE-HERRIN CONSTRUCTION COMPANY TO CONNOR HUPPER AND AMY ASHLEY

TROY

$154,900 -206 E THROP-JON ZAK AND MARISSA LANDON TO KRISTIN COURTNEY                                                

$235,000 -26 WHEAT DRIVE-CURT HOPPES TO MARK AND CHARITY KELLER                                                           

$243,000-2 GLENWOOD COURT-MICHAEL AND BARBARA LAPLANT TO THOMAS AND LAINA WILLIAMS

WOOD RIVER

$9,300-216 SOUTH CENTRAL AVENUE-FEDERAL HOME LOAN MORTGAGE TO DALE AND LORI SCHLONAT

$117,000-4338 BRUCENE DR- JD REAL PROPERTY, LLC TO DANIEL AND LISA BLACK

$236,370 -5609 CONEFLOWER CT- FULFORD HOMES RHT LLC TO TIMOTHY PLUMMER    

JUNE 15

ALTON

$29,000 -2310 VALLEYVIEW DR- SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT TO LEONARD LEVI

$103,500 -5012 ALICIA DR- DENISE M SMITH SJT OF JAMES W SMITH TO DARRELL BLAND                              

COLLINSVILLE

$10,000 -1203 HALF STATE STREET- PATRICIA ANN SCHWARTZ TO HOLLY NIPPER AND KAREN MCREYNOLDS         

$59,900 -514 S MORRISON AV- LYLE AND CHRISTINE BUETTNER  TO WILLIAM AND LINDSAY ANDERSEN

$68,000 -334 E PARK- ROBERT AND LEONA PESKAR TO MATTHEW PESKAR AND KELLY NAVES       

EDWARDSVILLE

$10,000 -141 SHORE DR - JOHN AND DORIS STONE TO JOSEPH AND RIANN THOMPSON                  

$110,000 -1302 TROY RD- MICHAEL CHAMBERLAIN, JR TO AWESOME RENTALS LLC                                           

$295,000 -127 HOLLYHOCK LN- HENRY AND WENDY BURGE TO MARK AND SHANNON MCWHORTER                        

$305,000 -3430 MANASSAS DRIVE- KEVIN AND DIANNE MERKEL TO THOMAS AND JESSICA TAYLOR                                           

GODFREY

$97,000 -5300 ENGLEWOOD- WAYNE AND MARY LESTER TO EMMY LOU COLE                                                    

GRANITE CITY   

$47,000 -34 WILSON PARK DR- MILBURN KURT AND LEIGH ANN GARDNER TO BRANDON AND BROOKE

BERLIN                 

$150,335.66 -2609 NORTHBRIDGE COURT- JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION TO SECRETARY OF HUD                             

HIGHLAND

$250,000 -12532 SPORTSMAN RD- THOMAS AND SUSAN MANVILLE TO THE SCHMITT FAMILY LIMITED PARTNERSHIP               

MARYVILLE

$35,000 -6804 WILLE DR- DAVID SORENSON TO DUSTIN COLEMAN                                                          

$225,000 -12 ANNEBRIAR DR- LORRIE FAYE COOK TO DAVID AND MARY MEYER

SOUTH ROXANA

$27,000 -416 MISSOURI AVE- JOSEPH A VOLZ TO DAWN DUMONT           

TROY

$88,000 -W KIRSCH RD- RONALD POLETTI TO MARK SIEVERS                                                                                                       

WOOD RIVER

$154,900 -111 CRESTVIEW- DEAN AND JUDITH SWEET TO DYLAN FRILLMAN AND SHELBY HALL    

$57,000 -116 S 9TH ST-  JAMES BICK AND JANET BAGENT HEIRS OF VENITA ANN CHILDERS TO RICK AND LYNNE ROSE

WORDEN                            

$142,000 -407 E DONNEWALD ST- JULIE STRIPLIN TO MACKENZIE OMALLEY         

JUNE 16               

ALTON

$67,000 -9 AVON PL-NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE TO PHILLIPS TUCKER INVESTMENTS LLC   

$22,302 -338 JEFFERSON AVE- SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT TO MARTY DEAN JONES       

COLLINSVILLE

$35,000 -8317 FAIRWAY BLVD-UNLISTED

$119,900-MAIN STREET - MICHAEL AND LYNN MCFARLAND TO JUSTIN AND RENEE DUNLAP

$190,000-105 WESTMORELAND DRIVE- DOLORES URKEWICH TO SHANE AND SHANNON MORGAN                                                                                                           

DORSEY

$137,000 -3902 SEILER RD- GEORGE AND CAROLINE GARRIGUS TO JAMIE N STEWARD

EDWARDSVILLE

$50,000 -STATE ROUTE 140- J ROYCE PEDIGO TO JOSEPH SCHAEFFER       

$65,000 -8477 MAPLE GROVE RD- DENNIS G HUNDMAN TO MATTHEW SHEMWELL                                          

$129,900 -743 HALE AVENUE- GARY AND JANICE ZELASKO, TRUSTEES TO MATTHEW WARE, JR

$410,000 -417 W LAKE DR- TRUSTEE OF LADIMI J AUBRECHT, JR DECLARATION OF TRUST TO PATRICIA R CHEATHAM

$375,000 -2314 MONTICELLO PLACE- ROBERT AND ELAINE ANDERSON TO JASON AND MARIE BRADLEY                   

GRANITE CITY

$1,482.00 -2259 IOWA ST- INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION TO JCS ACQUISITIONS, LLC         

$15,500 -45XX OLD EDWARDSVILLE RD-ROBERT M ADAIR, JR TO THE LUEMANN FAMILY ILLINOIS LAND TRUST     

$17,000 -2259 IOWA ST - JCS ACQUISITIONS, LLC TO TINA GRIFFIN                                                                            

$129,000 -2455 WATERMAN AVE- JASON MAXFIELD TO TERRI SCHMIDT

GLEN CARBON

$180,000 -16 FOREMAN DR- THOMAS COOK TO JAQUAN J VASSEL                                                                           

$572,516 -108 WALDEN DRIVE-SPENCER HOMES LLC TO MICHAEL JONES               

MADISON

$13,500 -1103 REYNOLDS ST- JOHNNIE L BOSLEY, JR TO RICHARD A WOOTEN, JR                                                

$20,000 -820 IOWA STREET- STEVEN AND JENNIFER MCKINNEY TO BUSCHMANN AND HUTCHASON PROPERTY MANAGEMENT LLC                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

MORO                 

$108,900 -415 DEER RUN- JEANETTE M VOWELS SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE HOMER JAMES VOWELS JR TRUST TO CHRISTINA COLE                                                                                              

$162,000 -141 N MAIN ST- DANIEL ALLEN TO SARAH KIRKPATRICK                                                            

WOOD RIVER

$85,000 -530 WILSON AVE- DAVID ZIMMER TO ADAM DOOLING                                                

There were 32 foreclosures in Madison County from June 19 to July 6.

JUNE 19

PENNYMAC LOAN SERVICES, LLC V. DEBRESHA DUNCAN; ST. CLAIR COUNTY INTERGOVERNMENTAL GRANTS DEPARTMENT; UNKNOWN OTHERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMAINTS, $83,081.71, 325 W H ST, SWANSEA. 17CH408

REVERSE MORTGAGE SOLUTIONS, INC. V AVILIA ERVIN; CHARLENE SANDERS-SANFORD; LENELL SANDERS-LAGRONE; ALVA JEAN SANDERS-MOSBY; LATOSHA ROBINSON; BERNICE ROBINSON; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA-DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF BERLINE ROBINSON; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS, $71,012.58, 1726 N. 44TH STREET, EAST SAINT LOUIS. 17CH409

WELLS FARGO BANK V NICOLE L. SCHAEFER; BRIAN J SCHAEFER, $200, 849.93, 1039 CATALPA DRIVE, O’FALLON. 17CH410

REGIONS BANK V RAYMOND EGLSEDER AKA RAYMOND M. EGLSLEDER; JACQUELINE EGSLEDER, $29,005.75, 3106 WEST MAIN STREET, BELLEVILLE. 17CH411

JUNE 21

BROKERS SOLUTIONS, INC. DBA NEW AMERICAN FUNDING V ANTHONY M. VITALE, TAMERA D. VITALE, $115, 909.12, 350 N. AURORA STREET, COLLINSVILLE. 17CH388

JUNE 23

MARKUS EXCAVATING, INC. V ROUTE 15, LLC, SCOTT KARFS, SUSAN KARFS, WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., FIRST NATIONAL BANK IN STAUNTON, $36,855.12, 8105 & 8109 W. ILLINOIS HIGHWAY 15, BELLEVILLE. 17CH421

NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE V SHANNON M. JUENGER, $110, 348.90, 1113 STATE STREET, COLLINSVILLE. 17CH391

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION V UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF WILLIAM R. DOWNEY, WILMA SUE DOWNEY, $110, 55.10, 7729 HUMBERT, GODFREY. 17CH390

DITECH FINANCIAL, LLC V ANDREW H. VANZANDT, MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., $61, 439. 45, 716 VOGE STREET, EDWARDSVILLE. 17CH389

NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE V PATRICK P. SHEPPARD, TRACY A. SHEPPARD, $83,388.23, 1517 MAIN STREET, SOUTH ROXANA. 17CH392

WELLS FARGO BANK V TERRY WORRELL, ELIZABETH WORRELL, $91, 785,32, 1200 2ND STREET, BETHALTO. 17CH393

JUNE 26

US BANK V DENNIS AND PATRICIA SZAKACSI, $55,748.10, 3121 HARVARD PLACE, COLLINSVILLE, 17CH394

US BANK V RICHARD WENTZEL, $71,594.78, 1421 12TH STREET, HIGHLAND, 17CH395

JP MORGAN CHASE BANK V CLIFTON GRAVES, $86,796.80, 501 N. MAIN ST., NEW DOUGLAS, 17CH396

JUNE 27

JP MORGAN CHASE BANK V UNKNOWN HEIRS, $71,411,30, 120 WILSON PARK LANE, GRANITE CITY, 17CH399

HSBC BANK V NICOLE BARENDREGT, $75,004.70, 1200 ADAMS AVENUE, COLLINSVILLE, 17CH400.

JUNE 28

LENDING HOME MARKETPLACE V J BESTERS LLC, $32,368.00, 119 WING AVE, COLLINSVILE, 17CH401.

BANK OF EDWARDSVILLE V SHARON ENGELKE TRUST, $79,861.01, 2525 WESTMORELAND DRIVE, GRANITE CITY, 17CH406.

JUNE 29

US BANK V KELLY MYERS AS CO EXECUTER OF THE ESTATE OF JUDITH VOLZ MYERS, $131,326.84, 4836 ROCKY BRANCH ROAD, BETHALTO, 17CH403.

JUNE 30

FIRST COUNTY BANK V KERRY RIDLEY, $20,988.86, 218 HARRISON ST, MADISON, 17CH404.

FIRST GUARNTY MORTGAGE V SHANE MILLER, $75,528.15, 3243 WESTCHESTER DRIVE, GRANITE CITY, 17CH405.

DITECH FINANCIAL V DONALD JONES, $134,658.03, 1223 HEATHER COURT, COLLINSVILLE, 17CH402.

JULY 3

JP MORGAN CHASE BANK V LOREN R. DICK, $189,315.06, 17 WESTBROOKE, TROY, 17CH407.

FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE/FANNIE MAE V MICHAEL ROBISON, $239,757.34, 976 HOLIDAY POINT PKWY, EDWARDSVILLE, 17CH408.

FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE/FANNIE MAE V CHRISTOPHER NIEBRUEGGE, $89,334.29, 101 ELLIOT ST., EDWARDSVILLE, 17CH409.

FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE/FANNIE MAE V TRACY SANCHEZ, $$93,030.44, 2839 EAST 25TH STREET, GRANITE CITY, 17CH410.

US BANK V HENRY BUSH, $27,963.27, 2619 PLAINVIEW TERR., ALTON, 17CH411.

JULY 5

WELLS FARGO BANK V ANDREA BARNETT, $52,081.62, 310 PICKER AVENUE, WOOD RIVER, 17CH412.

MIDFIRST BANK V MICHAEL FIELDER, $105,497.71, 3666 TERRACE LANE, GRANITE CITY, 17CH413.

JULY 6

STATE OF ILLINOIS V RETAIL PLACE, UNDISCLOSED AMOUNT, SANDRIDGE DRIVE, COLLINSVILLE, 17CH417.

DLJ MORTGAGE V ELDON SMITH, $110, 129.01, 2619 BROWN ST, ALTON. 17CH418.

WELLS FARGO BANK V GARY KHARIBIAN, $166,764.28, 12907 ANDREW DRIVE, HIGHLAND, 17CH419

SPRINGFIELD - A provision of the omnibus budget bill that allows the Illinois treasurer to offset "actuarial reserve deficiencies" in the state's woefully under-funded pensions, faces criticism among business interests.

Proposed by Treasurer Michael Frerichs, the new law gives his office discretion to turn over any amount received through the sale of abandoned property to state pension systems during the fiscal year; and on April 15 and Oct. 15 of each year the treasurer is required to deposit any amount in the Unclaimed Property Trust Fund exceeding $2.5 million into state pensions.

However, if the treasurer determines that $2.5 million is not enough on those dates to pay the rightful owners of property, which includes unclaimed life insurance policies, abandoned bank deposits and safety deposit boxes, for example, the office may retain more in the trust fund.

The unclaimed property bill - known as House Bill 302 - passed both chambers before the end of the regular session in May. It became law after withstanding the governor's veto action earlier this month while packaged up with other legislation - including tax increases - under SB9.

Among other things, the new legislation expands the reach of the Unclaimed Life Insurance Benefits Act passed last year, and now requires insurance companies to locate beneficiaries of unclaimed life insurance policies by comparing names to the Social Security Administration’s Master Death File back to Jan. 1, 2012. Before the bill was amended in the Senate, the requirement reached back to 1996.

Pro-business groups have been critical of a provision in the bill that allows contingent fee auditors to try to find abandoned property owners and collect fees for services, saying that it doesn’t allow the targeted institutions much certainty as to when they can assume that an unclaimed asset will no longer be redeemed.

In a letter to the Treasurer's office, the Illinois CPA Society said it was principally opposed to any contingency audit arrangement.

"The basis of our opposition to contingent fee audit arrangements is that it obscures or clouds the auditor's objectivity, which is a fundamental tenant of an audit," says the May 9 letter written by the group's vice president for government relations Martin Green.

"Professional standards require all CPAs both in public practice and business and industry to maintain objectivity in rendering professional services."

The executive director of the Illinois Chamber of Commerce Tax Institute, Keith Staats, wrote in opposition to a bill similar to HB 302 - the Revised Uniform Unclaimed Property Act (HB 2603) - saying it would adversely affect the business community. 

"Current law forbids the hiring of third party contingent fee auditors to conduct audits of Illinois-based businesses," he wrote. "Current law recognizes resource limitations of the Treasurer by authorizing the hiring of such auditors to conduct out-of-state audits. In our estimation, any fears of a possible constitutional infirmity created by disparate treatment of in-state and out-of-state audits is misplaced."

State Sen. Kyle McCarter (R-Lebanon), who voted against the measure, said in May that the bill was not constitutional because it would be a new law applied retroactively to previously existing contracts.

Other local legislators who supported its passage included State Sen. James Clayborne (D-East St. Louis); and State Reps. Jerry Costello (D-Red Bud), Katie Stuart (D-Collinsville), LaToya Greenwood (D-East St. Louis), Jay Hoffman (D-Belleville) and Dan Beiser (D-Alton).

The under-funded problem

The state's pension liability from six different funds - General Assembly Retirement System (GARS), Judges’ Retirement System (JRS), Teachers’ Retirement System (TRS), State Universities Retirement System (SURS), State Employees’ Retirement System (SERS), and the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund (IMRF) - has been estimated to exceed $250 billion.

"Actuarial deficiencies" were aided in the recent omnibus budget bill SB 9, which raised the personal income tax rate from 3.75 percent to 4.95 percent, and the corporate income tax rate from 7.75 percent to 9.5 percent.

The group Taxpayers United of America, which has fought for funding reform of pensions, claims that Democrat legislators who pushed for the increase “are just getting warmed up.”

Jim Tobin, TUA president, said pro-tax increase legislators plan on putting on the statewide ballot “a proposal to convert the state’s already high income tax to an even higher graduated income tax.”

“If put on the ballot, this income tax increase amendment to the state constitution will be presented to Illinois voters, and I can assure you that all state government employees, active and retired, will vote ‘Yes’ on this measure,” he said.

He added that almost all of money raised would go to the state’s “insolvent” pension plans.

The TUA argues that the state's "lavish" defined benefit retirement programs should move to defined contribution plans, such as 401(k)s as most private sector workers receive.

“Nearly 100,000 Illinois government retirees collect annual pensions totaling $50,000 or more, and 17,000 of those former government employees collect annual pensions totaling $100,000 or more,” Tobin said. “This is outrageous.”

Tuesday, July 25

9:30 A.M.

ALTMAN CHARTER V LEWIS BORSELLINO

12-L-234, CROWDER

10:00 A.M.

JEFFREY CORBIN V ALLSTATE CORPORATION

16-L-880, CROWDER

Wednesday, July 26

9:00 A.M.

BRANDON CARLISLE V PEGGY CAMPBELL

17-L-323, MATOESIAN

TORHOERMANN LAW V THOMAS KEEL & LAI

17-L-142, MATOESIAN

KATIA REBOLLAR V LAURA TOSI

17-L-108, MATOESIAN

ILLINOIS MUNICIPAL LEAGUE RISK MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION V GARY CLAXTON

17-L-62, MATOESIAN

CHARLES WALLACE V ROBYN HAMLIN

16-L-1764, MATOESIAN

CURTIS SKALLERUP V MICHAEL ANDERSON

16-L-1758, MATOESIAN

ANGEL MEYERS V WILL CARPENTER

16-L-1715, MATOESIAN

HENLEY DAVIS V CELITO CRUZ

16-L-1680, MATOESIAN

CYNTHIA ROMERO V WAL MART STORES

16-L-1634, MATOESIAN

WANDA BROWN V JOHN BROOKS

16-L-1589, MATOESIAN

BRETT SITZMORE V FORD MTOR COMPANY

16-L-1567, MATOESIAN

LAUREN BEACH V TAYLER REILMANN

16-L-1554, MATOESIAN

STEVEN DEW V ROGER KLOSS

16-L-1539, MATOESIAN

JAMES LATTIN V MARK WARREN

16-L-1461

JOSIE SMITH V CYCLERY & FITNESS

16-L-1407, MATOESIAN

JESSIE CARSON V MADISON COUNTY TR

16-L-1355, MATOESIAN

JAMIE ANDERSON V KYLE CARLSON

16-L-1350, MATOESIAN

JULIE STAMPER V METRO SPORTS

16-L-1181, MATOESIAN

BARBARA LITTLE V JOSEPH WEBER

16-L-1171, MATOESIAN

GERALD CONNER V DOROTHY HEINEY

16-L-1095, MATOESIAN

AC WARE SR V ABBEY MEYER

16-L-1058, MATOESIAN

JAMES KLIEFOTH V BARBARA DITTMAR

16-L-1047, MATOESIAN

DANNY LANTER V DEVON BLEDSOE

16-L-974, MATOESIAN

BRIAN STEELE V NICK MARR

16-L-913, MATOESIAN

EDWIN TWESTEN V BLAKE JOHNSON

16-L-835, MATOESIAN

KEITH WEEDEN V MARLANA CLEMMONS

16-L-666, MATOESIAN

WILLIE TAYLOR V KELCI OTTWELL

16-L-517, MATOESIAN

MELISSA FLACK V JOSEPH ROBERTSON

16-l-379, MATOESIAN

MICHAEL TOTTY V BARBARA TOTTY

16-L-278, MATOESIAN

LORI AHLERS V DANIELLE BONNELL

16-L-239, MATOESIAN

MICHAEL HENSLER V AMSTED RAIL COMPANY

16-L-192, MATOESIAN

BARBARA HILLMAN V CAPTAIN DS LLC

16-L-155, MATOESIAN

DENNIS ELLIOTT V AMANDA PORTER

16-L-116, MATOESIAN

BLAKE BOHNENSTEIHL V STEIN STEEL MILL

16-L-13, MATOESIAN

TIMOTHY ROSE V O’REILLY AUTO PARTS

15-L-1671, MATOESIAN

ELANOR NYMAN V PATRICIA BROWN

15-L-1641, MATOESIAN

MICHAEL BARRY V SCHENKER LOGISTIC

15-L-1386, MATOESIAN

LISA JACKS V MELISSA MOORE

15-L-1342, MATOESIAN

SUSAN GASKILL V HOLDIN JOSEPHINES

15-L-1331, MATOESIAN

ICON MECHANICAL V BROWN MINNEAPOLIS

15-L-1275, MATOESIAN

MAJOR GRANGER V BRUCE HOHNSBEHN

15-L-1194, MATOESIAN

YVETTE SCOTT V OLD DOMINION

15-L-1017, MATOESIAN

FRED SHAW V TACO BELL

15-L-761, MATOESIAN

REBECCA WHITE V CHRISTOPHER DOTZAUER

15-L-458, MATOESIAN

CORNELL KRIEGER V CHRISTOPHER HAARMANN

15-L-318, MATOESIAN

KASEY PATTERSON V DESTINI DAWSON

15-L-103, MATOESIAN

KATLYN SLAYDEN V PAPPA JOHNS PIZZA

14-L-1768, MATOESIAN

MARGARET GLEASON V WILLIAM MANUS

14-L-1657, MATOESIAN

BARBARA ROSS V MEGAN LEDBETTER

14-L-1393, MATOESIAN

DANA HOLLAND V KEVIN SLATEN

14-L-1200, MATOESIAN

KATHLEEN BUCK V JON SHRIMPTON

14-L-1164, MATOESIAN

LAUREN REED V SOUTHWESTERN

14-L-823, MATOESIAN

JAMES METCALF V ELIABETH METCALF

14-L-603, MATOESIAN

CASSANDRA MALLOY V CHRISTINA MIDKIFF

14-L-532, MATOESIAN

RAYMOND GOODBRAKE V ANTONIA BUNT

14-L-330, MATOESIAN

ABBY BRADSHAW V PATRICE STATEN

13-L-2028, MATOESIAN

BRIAN EISENHAUER V MARTHA FISHER

13-L-39, MATOESIAN

CLINT FRANCIS V FASE EDDIE’S

12-L-1916, MATOESIAN

DAVID FORD V JACOB DACUS

12-L-1343, MATOESIAN

JT V GRANITE CITY

12-L-717, MATOESIAN

KEVIN CARTWRIGHT V BGHA INC

11-L-1136, MATOESIAN

STEPHAN DAVENPORT V CATHERINE WIKOFF

09-L-1022

RYAN TREPKA V MIRACLE DUNN

17-L-365, RUTH

DANIEL FULLER V MELISSA SCHMACKER

17-L-345, RUTH

ETHAN TUCKER V MARY SHERMAN

16-L-1697, RUTH

MICHAEL HARPOLE V DANIEL PLATE

16-L-1642, RUTH

DANIELLE HAILE V MARK HARSTER

16-L-1612, RUTH

FIRST BANK V CDC DEVELOPMENT

16-L-1597, RUTH

ERIN STAMBAUGH V ROBERT BEHME

16-L-1533, RUTH

TIFFANY JARMAN V TEAM COMPANY

16-L-1448, RUTH

JULIA LUKETICH V MARCUS KORSMEYER

16-L-1342, RUTH

CHAUN HARRIS V JERRY CHAVERS

16-L-1258, RUTH

JAMES MASON V PHILLIPS 66

16-L-1249, RUTH

JAMES REDMOND V JUNE OTTWELL

16-L-1057, RUTH

KATHRYN THOMAS V DAYLE CLEVENGER

16-L-1022, RUTH

HOWARD ROBERT V VERMEER MANUFACTURING

16-L-853, RUTH

JAMES THOMASON V DON HOLMES

16-L-288, RUTH

GABRIELA DOCHWAT V ELIZABETH KAYSER

16-L-232, RUTH

JENNIFER KNOPIK V MIKAYLA JOHNSON

16-L-183, RUTH

DERON GATLING V PRICE OMONDI

16-L-98, RUTH

MARY TENLLADO V KATHLEEN BIGGS

15-L-1661, RUTH

THOMAS PARMER V ESTRAYA SANCHEZ

15-L-1310, RUTH

DOLORES PARENTE V GLEN CARBON DEVELOP

15-L-1163, RUTH

DONNA CARTER V PIASA ENTERPRISES

15-L-967, RUTH

JAAVANTE CARTER V PIASA ENTERPRISES

15-L-965, RUTH

JACKIE YOUNG V NORMA FERRARI

15-L-508, RUTH

NANCY KRAMER V BUERK BETHEL DDS

15-L-360, RUTH

KELSEY HUBERT V BRADLEY HUNZIKER

15-L-314, RUTH

JAY TOMERLIN V HOWARD SPRAGGS

15-L-239, RUTH

ANDREA BODINET V NANCY SCHOLL

15-L-184, RUTH

SC JOHNSON & SON V THOMAS BUSKE

15-L-164, RUTH

PAMELA GIBSON V DAVID SELTZER

15-L-76, RUTH

AARON FLANAGAN V JACK GARRETT

14-L-1320, RUTH

LORETTA BOSTON V KELLAN RESTAURANT

14-L-1295, RUTH

JOE WERNER CONSTRUCTION V DAVID MEARS

14-L-1282, RUTH

KIMBERLY MANGRUM V SAINT ANTHONY’S

14-L-1274, RUTH

ANTONIO BUFFO V UNITED STATES STE

14-L-1176, RUTH

ROBERT JONES V METALS USA

14-L-314, RUTH

STEVE KELLEY V BEER BARREL PUB

14-L-147, RUTH

DON SEALS V BEER BARREL PUB

14-L-146, RUTH

LUCINDA HODGES V DG RETAIL

13-L-2204, RUTH

AUTUMN SWARRINGIN V ROBERT DAVIS

13-L-1687, RUTH

SANDRA TERRY V TMCI INC

13-L-1563, RUTH

DEBORAH MCVEY V DONALD CHATHAM

13-L-1398, RUTH

JOSHUA AINSWORTH V LAWNCOMER INC

12-L-1788, RUTH

APRIL REDDING V DANNY GATTON

11-L-116, RUTH

COURTNEY BURRELL V AMEREN INC

09-L-966, RUTH

LAURIE HILLIARD V DAN WYHS

09-L-791, RUTH

COURTNEY BURRELL V CITY OF MADISON

08-L-1162, RUTH

ANDREW BLACKWELL v MARY BOWLES

17-L-450, MUDGE

GATEWAY HOUSING V TRIVERS ASSOCIATE

17-L-427, MUDGE

DALTON BRITO V WENDELLS DUGOUT

17-L-253, MUDGE

TODD BECHEL V SUSAN SILK

17-L-168, MUDGE

STEVEN EDWARDS V AMERICAS CENTRAL

16-L-1743, MUDGE

JOLENE COSPER V JANELLE DIETRICH

16-L-1442, MUDGE

DENNIS FUCHS V ROBERT WILKINSON

16-L-1433, MUDGE

KENDALL WILLIS V PHILLIPS 66

16-L-1315, MUDGE

STEPHEN BRAY V DARRELL NORWOOD

16-L-1305, MUDGE

THECHNOLOGY INSURANCE V OASIS CONSTRUCTION

16-L-1289, MUDGE

KEITH HANNANT V PAIGE HESSE

16-L-1116, MUDGE

RICHARD DROEGE V RED E MIX LLC

16-L-1066, MUDGE

SHERRY MAZZARELLA V WOOD RIVER HEALTH

16-L-1044, MUDGE

WELLS FARGO BANK V HOME BUYERS

16-L-1042, MUDGE

KATHARINE EARNEST V STEPHEN PAPAJCIK

16-L-1009, MUDGE

ANNEE JEAN BONNE V MARK WORKER

16-L-981, MUDGE

COLIN HARRIS V DAVE & JUDY’S INC

16-L-702, MUDGE

STANLEY OBRECHT V VILLAGE OF GLEN CARBON

16-L-689, MUDGE

ROBERT WILLIAMS V PREMIER CDL TRAIN

16-L-639, MUDGE

MARCUS GORDON JR V NEW DJ S BAR

16-L-547, MUDGE

DEBRA FISH V CITY OF ALTON

16-L-495, MUDGE

RHONDA BOYER V BANTI MAHANTA

16-L-478, MUDGE

JONI LIGHT V DYNAMIC TRANSIT

16-L-462, MUDGE

ERIN STAMBAUGH V CARMEN INMAN

16-L-273, MUDGE

HAROLD KEEBLER V PINNACLE FOODS

16-L-228, MUDGE

ROBERT RICKETT V CORTEZ AGUIRRE MO

16-L-213, MUDGE

KELLER EXCAVATING V CHIPPEWA LOFT LLC

16-L-207, MUDGE

ANDY THOMAS V LOIS MULLEN

16-L-187, MUDGE

MTC 1 A CORPORATION V VINCENT VOGLER

16-L-176, MUDGE

JANE DOE V WORD OF LIFE TABERNACLE 

16-L-123, MUDGE

HORCELIA BOWEN V BRAVO CARE OF ALT

16-L-72, MUDGE

EDWARD KOZICKY V ALTON CASINO LLC

15-L-1541, MUDGE

STATE FARM MUTUAL V TREY KELLOGG

15-L-1364, MUDGE

BRIAN BOESER V CHS INC 

15-L-1344, MUDGE

STEVEN BOSWORTH V DEVON HICKS 

15-L-1298, MUDGE

JULIANNE DANT V LUCAS INFANTI

15-L-1245, MUDGE

MATTHEW DEBGROOT V GREGORY GAYLORD

15-L-1095, MUDGE

JUNE KINSEY V GLEN CARBON SENIOR

15-L-1050, MUDGE

AMANDA FOCHT V DAVID BOX 

15-L-902, MUDGE

STEPHANIE HALE V CAROLYN MAGRUDER

15-L-442, MUDGE

CANDACE LEWIS V JOHNSON & JOHNSON 

15-L-409, MUDGE

MANUFACTURERS AND V GREENVILLE GASTRO

15-L-326, MUDGE

JAMIE BRANDT V THOMAS KANE

15-L-105, MUDGE

JUDYTH HARLAN V JOHNSON & JOHNSON

15-L-84, MUDGE

MARY CRANE V ALHAMBRA CARE

14-L-1693, MUDGE

DANA GABRIEL V PHILIPP JACKSON 

14-L-1625, MUDGE

PEGGY KELTNER V SUNCOKE ENERGY

14-L-1540, MUDGE

MATTHEW TREAT V ANNETTE BACA

14-L-1529, MUDGE

GILBERT SUMMERS V WALMART STORES

14-L-1472, MUDGE

STATE FARM FIRE V METRO EAST ROOFING

14-L-1337, MUDGE

BILLY WILLIAMS V WILLIAM WEST

14-L-975, MUDGE

BEVERLEY MEYER V ABIGAIL MCVICKAR

14-L-900, MUDGE

JERRY MORGAN V MADISON COUNTY TR

14-L-187, MUDGE

JOSEPH CECCHINI V AMEREN ILLINOIS 

14-L-21, MUDGE

JOHN ROSENKRANZ V CENTRAL BUSINESS

13-L-2200, MUDGE

COLLETTE COURTION V 3M 

13-L-995, MUDGE

TRUDY LEHNEN V SHELL OIL COMPANY

13-L-679, MUDGE

MARY BOND V WRIGHT MEDICAL TE

12-L-410, MUDGE

JOHN DISHER V SHELL OIL COMPANY

11-L-1225, MUDGE

JACK BROWN V SHELL OIL COMPANY

11-L-1008, MUDGE

ANDREW KAYSER V SHELL OIL COMPANY

11-L-901, MUDGE

LINDA PERKO V LERCH HOMES INC

10-L-202, MUDGE

TARUNKUMAR PATEL V GHANSHYAM MANAGEMENT 

09-L-1079, MUDGE

1:30 P.M.

BILL VINYARD V JARDEN BROTHERS

14-L-892, RUTH

Thursday, July 27

9:00 A.M.

ANTONIA BUNT V CITY OF WOOD RIVER

14-L-504, MATOESIAN

JAMES GRECO V ORTHOPEDIC & SPOR

11-L-140, MUDGE

1:00 P.M.

JAMES GRECO V ORTHOPEDIC & SPOR

11-L-140, MUDGE

LINDA BATSON V LOCKWOOD GROUP LLC

13-L-1181, MUDGE

PEGGY KELTNER V SUNCOKE ENERGY

14-L-1540, MUDGE

DANA GABRIEL V PHILIPP JACKSON

14-L-1625, MUDGE

HOUSING AUTHORITY V EGGEMEYER ASSOCIATES

15-L-402, MUDGE

DAVID BIGGS V NICHOLAS SCHEIBEL

15-L-860, MUDGE

ELM SHEET METAL V SAND CONSTRUCTION

15-L-1023, MUDGE

MARY NEUDECKER V SCOTT CREDIT UNION

15-L-1420, MUDGE

UNIQUE PERSONNEL V SIGAN AMERICA LLC

15-L-1667, MUDGE

EDEN RETIREMENT V CONSTANCE DRAKE

16-L-139, MUDGE

DONNA GODAIR V METRO EAST SANITATION

16-L-382, MUDGE

MARK HARRIS SR V TRAVIS CRAIN

16-L-527, MUDGE

BRIAN FARMER V PROGRESSIVE NORTH

16-L-733, MUDGE

RONALD GEISER V RIVERS EDGE

16-L-1185, MUDGE

TYLER GREEN V RUSSELL SMITH

16-L-1413, MUDGE

GATEWAY HOUSING V TRIVERS ASSOCIATE

17-L-427, MUDGE

JEFFERY GIBSON V GEICO CASUALTY

17-L-297, MUDGE

DEBRA AGEE V EARL MODESTO

17-L-235, MUDGE

DATHAN BROOKS V JOHN SHOURD

17-L-203, MUDGE

ANDREA HARRIS V HOHMAN ENTERPRISE

17-L-179, MUDGE

CHRISTOPHER NOLAN V AMANDA VERETT

17-L-27, MUDGE

LM INSURANCE CORPORATION V JOHNSONS ROOFING

16-L-1622, MUDGE

Friday, July 28

9:00 A.M.

TODD SIVIA V MICHAEL LISCHKO

17-L-857, RUTH

DANIEL FULLER V MELISSA SCHMACKER

17-L-345, RUTH

JORDAN VARNER V FLYNN LION LLC

17-L-91, RUTH

FIRST BANK V CDC DEVELOPMENT

16-L-1597, RUTH

CHAUN HARRIS V JERRY CHAVERS

16-L-1258, RUTH

JAMIE BETZINGER V MADISON COUNTY A

16-L-1180, RUTH

VINE HUGHES V MICHAEL SUTTON

16-L-528, RUTH

REBECCA MERRILL V OSBEC MEDICAL

15-L-282, RUTH

MICHAEL COMBS V GENERAL ELECTRIC

14-L-1396, RUTH

GREEN INVESTMENTS V RIVERBEND SCRAP

08-L-299, RUTH

TERESA STEPHENS V USF INSURANCE COMPANY

04-L-1318, RUTH

10:00 A.M.

KIMBERLY BRANDT V ALEC SCHULTZ

16-L-1618, RUTH

1:30 P.M.

DAWN LYMBERPOULOS V CHRISTOPHER MCCOY

16-L-433, RUTH

School’s out in the summertime.

So when Harrisburg’s Mike and Angella Gauch decided they would drive to Springfield earlier this month, getting out of work wasn’t a concern.

He’s the superintendent of the Harrisburg School District, and she’s a teacher in Carbondale. Unlike most working adults in Saline County, they are off work in July.

This year, they spent part of their summer vacation successfully lobbying for a state income tax hike. 

When the tax hike passed, Angella Gauch lauded state legislators on Facebooktelling them thanks for “standing strong for kids.”

She didn’t thank them for standing strong for the Gauch family, although she might have.

Angella and her husband pulled in more than $220,000 from taxpayers last year. 

According to the Illinois State Board of Education, Mike earned $148,033, to go with seven weeks of paid personal or vacation days worth another $20,000. Angella earned $73,667.

The state income tax increase will cost their Harrisburg neighbors more: Saline County workers will send an additional $5 million per year to Springfield, according to estimates, while simultaneously protecting the Gauches' taxpayer-funded pensions and guaranteed annual salary increases amid steady school enrollment declines.

But Mike Gauch insists this isn’t about him.

“These are the people that matter,” Gauch said at a Vandalia rally with Chicago Public Schools Chief Forrest Claypool, gesturing to children holding “Save our Students” poster boards. “Not us: them.”

Southern Illinois’ new elite: paid by taxpayers

The Gauches represent a new reality in Southern Illinois: a public employee power couple whose income ranks them among the wealthiest families in Saline County.

Working just nine months a year, they earned more than five times the median household in Saline County, at $38,258 in 2015, according to the U.S. Census. 

And their home -- a four-bedroom, three-bath house two blocks from Shawnee Hills Country Club for which they paid $219,000 in 2015 -- is worth more than four times as much as their average neighbor's. The median home sale price in Harrisburg over the past 12 months was $46,500, according to Trulia.com.

Paying for accelerating lifestyles of public employees like the Gauches has come at the expense of private industry in this corner of Southern Illinois, which pays higher taxes to foot the bill.  

When it comes to speaking up for themselves -- against an income tax increase -- working men and women are at a major disadvantage.

“Myself along with hundreds of others were working and couldn’t go to Springfield to lobby,” Bob Sandidge, a 40-year veteran of the coal mining industry who lives in Carrier Mills, said. “Coal mines in Saline County were operating and carrying on business as usual.”

Sandidge says that it is unsustainable to continue to pay teachers and other public employees more as private-sector workers have seen their wages stagnate or fall. He blames higher taxes for making Southern Illinois less competitive than nearby Indiana and Kentucky, driving industrial jobs across the border.

“I think teachers should be compensated for their commitment and dedication, but not to the extreme that they are in Illinois,” Sandidge said. “The education system could stand to manage their cash the way a business manages its own cash. Numerous industries across the nation have been forced to make concessions in order to remain profitable, the education system might try following suit.”

“If there isn’t enough cash to provide a pension, then they should be offered some kind of a 401K system that matches a certain percent of their own contribution; likewise with health insurance and other benefits,” Sandidge said.

Teacher salaries and property taxes -- both higher in Illinois 

The average teacher's salary in Harrisburg District 3 is $51,744, according to the Illinois State Board of Education. That’s 35 percent more than the median income in Saline County.

It’s also higher than Harrisburg’s out-of-state peers. 

The median salary for a teacher in nearby Morganfield, Kentucky, is $45,655.

In Mt. Vernon, Indiana, it is $41,691.

In fact, Both Mt. Vernon ($92,300 median sale price) and Morganfield ($84,100) have higher costs of living than Harrisburg, as measured by real estate values.

That’s because property taxes are higher in Illinois, which makes it more expensive to own real estate.

An 800-square-foot, two-bedroom home at 8801 Darnell School Road in Mt. Vernon, Indiana, sold on June 30 for $82,500; its tax bill is $226. 

In Harrisburg, a 1,600-square-foot three bedroom home at 617 W. Ogara St.-- twice the size of the Mt. Vernon house -- sold for $89,000 earlier this spring. Its tax bill is seven times as high, at $1,680.

Sandidge, a West Kentucky native, said soaring property taxes make it difficult to put down roots here.

“When I lived in Kentucky, I owned a home valued at $250,000, and the property taxes ran around $1,700 per year,” he said. “In Illinois, I put in a double-wide home on a 2.5-acre lot valued at $85,000, and my estimated property taxes are in excess of $3,800. Something is wrong with that.”

Agencies that provide social services to the state can’t claim the same right of payment as state employees in the absence of appropriations, St. Clair County Circuit Judge Robert LeChien ruled on July 17.

LeChien denied an injunction against the Department of Human Services, finding an appellate court in Chicago had already decided the issue.

He hammered the department directors, however, even as he ruled in their favor.

“Here it is alleged that the directors act in bad faith which is outside the scope of their authority,” LeChien wrote.

“The defendant directors are without authority, and are beyond the scope of their discretionary decision making powers, when they act in violation of public policy.

“It is the public policy of the state of Illinois that its executive officers discharge their duties in good faith.

“The directors are presumed to know that, at the time of entering contracts with plaintiffs that the state had decided that it will deny payment.

“While defendant directors have no duty to terminate the providers’ contracts, they must honor the contracts to the extent that it is not impossible to perform and they cannot impair contracts by accepting services for our citizens knowing that the providers will not be paid.”

He wrote that plaintiffs have no remedy in the Court of Claims, which hears contract disputes and other claims against the state.

“These agencies will fail because the governor and the General Assembly could not act together to take care of the needs of our citizens,” he wrote.

“Plaintiff providers are advised that their remedy is to lobby the members of the General Assembly for all the process they are due.

“If providers’ only option to be paid is to lobby the General Assembly to get paid, then providers have no remedy.” 

Caritas Family Solutions, a Catholic agency, stood as lead plaintiff.

Illinois had operated without a budget since June 30, 2015 - until legislators came up with a plan on July 6 – during which time members of state employee unions had worked without a contract. 

When the budget ran out, LeChien granted an injunction authorizing the state comptroller to process a normal payroll in the absence of appropriations. 

Earlier this year, attorney general Lisa Madigan moved to dissolve the injunction. 

She argued that it has allowed Gov. Bruce Rauner and legislators to shirk their constitutional duty to adopt a budget.

LeChien denied the motion.

BELLEVILLE – The city of Fairview Heights is seeking demolition of a property it alleges is unsafe.

City of Fairview Heights, Illinois filed a complaint on June 2 in the St. Clair County Circuit Court against Evelyn I. Youmans; City of O'Fallon, Illinois; Sabre Investments LLC; and St. Clair County as Trustee for Taxing Districts

According to the complaint, Youmans owns a Caseyville Township property and that the remaining defendants either bought the delinquent taxes or hold a lien on the property.

The plaintiff alleges that on July 25, 2016, it mailed a letter to Youmans informing that it would apply for an order authorizing demolition unless said building is put into safe condition or demolished within 15 days.

The plaintiff holds Youmans; city of O'Fallon; Sabre Investments LLC; and St. Clair County as Trustee for Taxing Districts responsible because the defendants allegedly failed to demolish the property and that it remains dangerous and unsafe.

The plaintiff seeks expedited judgment for an order authorizing demolition of the building, payment for costs of suit, and for such other relief as the Court deems just and proper. It is represented by James L. Gehrs of Becker, Hoener, Thompson & Ysura, PC in Belleville.

St. Clair County Circuit Court case number 17-MR-79

EDWARDSVILLE – A Madison County woman alleges that she was injured because of the negligent conduct of a Maryville physician.

Brittany Brown filed a complaint on July 10 in Madison County Circuit Court against James Fernandez, M.D. alleging negligence.

According to the complaint, the plaintiff alleges that on Nov. 19, 2015, she came under the care and treatment of defendant Fernandez at Anderson Hospital for a scheduled excision of the left submandibular gland. She alleges that the defendant failed to remove the salivary stone that was identified before the operation and failed to remove the gland.

The plaintiff holds Fernandez responsible because the defendant allegedly failed to prescribe a full 10 days of antibiotics for treatment of sialoadenities prior to surgery and failed to follow conservative treatment measures before resorting to surgery.

The plaintiff requests a trial by jury and seeks judgment in an amount of more than $50,000, plus costs and other further relief the court deems proper and just. She is represented by John J. Hopkins of John J. Hopkins & Associates, PC in Alton.

Madison County Circuit Court case number 17-L-967

EDWARDSVILLE – A woman alleges her head and neck were injured as a result of a collision in Alton.

Lindsay Thien filed a complaint on July 10 in Madison County Circuit Court against Erin D. Hall alleging negligence.

According to the complaint, the plaintiff alleges that on Nov. 23, 2016, she was driving in an easterly direction on Homer Adams Parkway when the defendant's vehicle rear-ended her vehicle. As a result, Thien claims she suffered physical injuries, lost wages and incurred large sums of money in medical bills. 

The plaintiff holds Hall responsible because the defendant allegedly failed to keep vehicle under proper control, failed to keep a proper lookout, failed to apply brakes and failed to reduce speed to avoid the accident.

The plaintiff seeks judgment of more than $50,000, plus costs of suit, and any other further relief deems appropriate and just. She is represented by Jane Unsell of Unsel, Schattnik & Phillips, PC in Wood River.

Madison County Circuit Court case number 17-L-968