Justice SLATER delivered the opinion of the court:
Petitioners, Leonard and Anne Holmgren, appeal from an order of the circuit court denying their petition to intervene in a wrongful death action stemming from the death of their son, Stephen Holmgren. The issue raised on appeal is whether the parents of a decedent are beneficiaries under the Wrongful Death Act (hereinafter the Act) (Ill.Rev.Stat.1989, ch. 70, par. 2) when the decedent leaves a surviving spouse. We...
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