ECKHARDT v. KIRTS

No. 2-88-0319.

179 Ill. App.3d 863 (1989)

534 N.E.2d 1339

DOROTHY ECKHARDT, Adm'r of the Estate of Harold V. Eckhardt, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. THOMAS KIRTS, Defendant-Appellee.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Second District.

Opinion filed February 22, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter Thomas Smith, of Sycamore, for appellant.

John W. Duncker and William F. Cunningham, both of O'Reilly, Cunningham, Norton & Mancini, of Wheaton, for appellee.


Judgment affirmed.

JUSTICE McLAREN delivered the opinion of the court:

On March 29, 1984, plaintiff, Dorothy Eckhardt, administrator of the estate of Harold V. Eckhardt, decedent, filed a malpractice action against Thomas Kirts, M.D., defendant, alleging that his negligent psychiatric treatment of Joyce Eckhardt was a cause of the wrongful death of the decedent. Joyce Eckhardt, the decedent's wife, who suffered...

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