PORTER v. FORD MOTOR CO.

No. 56282.

96 Ill.2d 190 (1983)

449 N.E.2d 827

SALLY PODGORSKI PORTER, Special Adm'r, Appellant, v. FORD MOTOR COMPANY, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed May 18, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard M. Ring & Associates, of Chicago (Leonard M. Ring, Jay M. Smyser and Judith E. Fors, of counsel), for appellant.

Baker & McKenzie, of Chicago (Francis D. Morrissey, Thomas F. Tobin and Richard H. Donohue, of counsel), for appellee.


Judgment affirmed.

JUSTICE WARD delivered the opinion of the court:

Sally Podgorski Porter brought this appeal from an affirmance by the appellate court of a judgment of the circuit court of Cook County which dismissed her suit as special administrator of the estate of her deceased husband against the Ford Motor Company (Ford). We granted her petition for leave to appeal under our Rule 315 (73 Ill.2d R. 315).

On October 12, 1974, Arthur M. Podgorski...

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