PEOPLE EX REL. GEN. MOTORS CORP. v. BUA

Nos. 39380, 39556 cons.

37 Ill.2d 180 (1967)

226 N.E.2d 6

THE PEOPLE ex rel. General Motors Corporation, Petitioner, v. NICHOLAS J. BUA, Judge, Respondent. — DELMAR FRANKLIN et al., Appellees, v. GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied May 16, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

LORD, BISSELL & BROOK, of Chicago, and ALOYSIUS F. POWER, of Detroit, Michigan, (GORDON R. CLOSE, NEWELL S. BOARDMAN, and JAY M. SMYSER, of counsel,) for petitioner.

DON H. REUBEN, LAWRENCE GUNNELS, and FRANK CICERO, JR., all of Chicago, for respondent.

LORD, BISSELL & BROOK, of Chicago, and ALOYSIUS F. POWER, of Detroit, Michigan, (GORDON R. CLOSE, NEWELL S. BOARDMAN, and JAY M. SMYSER, of counsel,) for appellant.

LOUIS G. DAVIDSON and HERBOLSHEIMER & LANNON, both of Chicago, for appellees.


Writs awarded; appeal dismissed.

Mr. CHIEF JUSTICE SOLFISBURG delivered the opinion of the court:

We have consolidated two cases which have come to us as the result of plaintiffs' efforts to employ discovery procedures in a products liability action initiated in the circuit court of Cook County against General Motors Corporation. Recovery was sought for personal injuries allegedly sustained in an accident of May 11, 1963, while plaintiffs were riding in a...

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