HEFNER v. OWENS-CORNING FIBERGLAS CORP.

No. 5-95-0058.

659 N.E.2d 448 (1995)

276 Ill.App.3d 1099

213 Ill.Dec. 532

Scott HEFNER, Special Administrator of the Estate of Clarence Hefner, Deceased, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. OWENS-CORNING FIBERGLAS CORP., Defendant-Appellant M.H. Detrick, Inc., Defendant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, Fifth District.

December 27, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raymond R. Fournie, Thomas B. Weaver, Armstrong, Teasdale, Schlafly & Davis, St. Louis, Missouri; Ruth E. VanDemark, Law Offices of Ruth E. VanDemark, Chicago, Illinois (Karen I. Ward, Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation, Granville, Ohio, of counsel), for Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation.

Edward J. Kionka, Carbondale, Illinois; Brocton Lockwood, John Speroni, Lockwood & Speroni, P.C., Marion, Illinois; Charles Marshall, St. Louis, Missouri, for Clarence Hefner.

Susan Gunty, Gunty & McCarthy, Chicago, Illinois, for M.H. Detrick Company.


Justice KUEHN1 delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant, Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation (OCF), brings this interlocutory appeal pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 306(a)(2) (155 Ill.2d R. 306(a)(2)), contending that the Madison County trial court's denial of its motion for reconsideration of the motion for transfer under the doctrine of forum non conveniens was an abuse of discretion. When this appeal was filed, Clarence Hefner...

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