PERRY v. PUBLIC BLDG. COM'N OF CHICAGO

No. 1-90-3371.

597 N.E.2d 723 (1992)

232 Ill. App.3d 402

173 Ill.Dec. 749

Carmece PERRY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. PUBLIC BUILDING COMMISSION OF CHICAGO, Defendant-Appellee (City of Chicago, a municipal corporation; County of Cook, a body politic and corporate, Defendants).

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Fifth Division.

Rehearing Denied August 26, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tyrrell, Etchingham & Associates, Chicago (Thomas J. Tyrrell, Jeffrey D. Javors, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellant.

Barry M. Lewis & Associates, Chicago (Kurt Olsen, of counsel), for defendant-appellee.


Justice LORENZ delivered the opinion of the court:

In this slip and fall case, plaintiff's original complaint (filed on the last day of the applicable statute of limitations) incorrectly designated the defendant Public Building Commission of Chicago as the "Cook County Public Building Commission." The trial court found that the incorrect designation was a misidentification of a party and not a misnomer under paragraph 2-401 of the Code of Civil Procedure (Ill.Rev...

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