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A.E. STALEY MFG. CO. v. SWIFT & CO.

No. 15522.

80 Ill. App.3d 122 (1980)

399 N.E.2d 339

A.E. STALEY MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SWIFT & COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Fourth District.

Opinion filed January 8, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sacks, Montgomery, Pastore & Levine, of New York, and Samuels, Miller, Schroeder, Jackson & Sly, of Decatur (Stuart M. Levine and Nicholas J. Neiers, of counsel), for appellant.

Frederic S. Lane and Robert B. Millner, both of Sonnenschein, Carlin, Nath & Rosenthal, of Chicago, and Robert D. Winters, of Armstrong, Winters, Prince, Featherstun & Johnson, of Decatur, for appellee.

Reversed and remanded.

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE MILLS delivered the opinion of the court:

Is place of trial to be determined by the stopwatch and a race to the courthouse steps?

We hope not. The forum and venue for a resolution of controversies on their merits is far too serious a matter to be relegated to a lawyer's dash for the clerk's office.

In short, we reverse and remand for the trial court...

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