DOYLE v. RHODES

Nos. 57540, 57554 cons.

101 Ill.2d 1 (1984)

461 N.E.2d 382

CHARLES L. DOYLE, Appellee, v. KATHLEEN C. RHODES, Appellee and Appellant (Rein, Schultz & Dahl, Appellant and Appellee).

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied March 30, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Turner & Shoemaker, of Rockford (Harold L. Turner, of counsel), for appellee and appellant Kathleen C. Rhodes.

Robert K. Clark and Robert H. Clark, of Clark & Heaslip, of Rockford, and Douglas F. Stevenson, of Rooks, Pitts, Fullagar & Poust, of Chicago, for appellant and appellee Rein, Schultz & Dahl.

Thomas J. Keevers, of Chicago, for amicus curiae Liberty Mutual Insurance Company.


Appellate court affirmed, as modified; cause remanded.

JUSTICE SIMON delivered the opinion of the court:

We are required here to construe and apply the Illinois Contribution Among Joint Tortfeasors Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1981, ch. 70, par. 301 et seq.) (hereafter referred to as the Contribution Act) which was enacted following the decision in Skinner v. Reed-Prentice Division Package Machinery Co. (1977), 70 Ill.2d 1

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