DEARDORFF v. DECATUR AND MACON C. HOSP. ASS'N

Gen. No. 11,046.

111 Ill. App.2d 384 (1969)

250 N.E.2d 313

Leonard J. Deardorff, Administrator of the Estate of John A. Enders, Deceased, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Decatur and Macon County Hospital Association, a Corporation, Engineering Service Corporation, an Illinois Corporation, T.A. Brinkoetter and Sons, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, General Controls Company, a Corporation of St. Louis, Missouri, and Illinois Power Company, an Illinois Corporation, Defendants-Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Fourth District.

August 12, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Earl S. Hodges, of Springfield (Samuel C. Patton, of counsel), for appellant.

Samuels, Miller, Schroeder, Jackson & Sly, and Greanias & Owen, of Decatur (Jerald E. Jackson and Marshall A. Susler, of counsel), Hershey & Bliss, of Taylorville (Charles Bliss, of counsel), for appellees.


SMITH, J.

Plaintiff appeals from an order denying his motion to vacate a judgment dismissing a suit for want of prosecution. The motion to vacate the judgment of dismissal was filed within 30 days of the dismissal order. The parties are in substantial agreement that involved in this appeal is the determination of whether or not the trial court abused his discretion and whether or not the plaintiff showed good cause for vacating the order of dismissal. He didn't, and...

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