Case Name: The Grand Lodge Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, Petitioner, vs. Ethel McClary, Admx., Respondent
Court: Illinois Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Illinois
Decision Date: 1937-12-14
Citations: 367 Ill. 414
Docket Number: No. 24477
Parties: The Grand Lodge Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, Petitioner, vs. Ethel McClary, Admx., Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Illinois Reports
Volume: 367
Pages: 414–415

Head Matter:
(No. 24477.
The Grand Lodge Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, Petitioner, vs. Ethel McClary, Admx., Respondent.
Announced orally December 14, 1937.
Gower, Gray and Gower, (W. H. Dyer, of counsel,) for petitioner.
Frank J. Burns, and James T. Burns, for respondent.

Opinion:
Mr. Justice Orr
announced the decision of the court:
The order of the Appellate Court for the Second District in this case affirming the judgment of the circuit court of Kankakee county was entered on September 9, 1937. Neither a notice of intention to apply for rehearing nor a petition for rehearing was filed in the Appellate Court within the fifteen-day period prescribed by its rule 19. As a result, under the provisions of section 75 of the Civil Practice act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1937, chap, no, par. 199) the judgment of the Appellate Court became final upon the expiration of the fifteen-day period — namely upon September 24, 1937. To obtain further review, petitioner was required, within forty days of the date upon which the judgment of the Appellate Court became final, to file its petition for leave to appeal in this court under the provisions of section 75, as well as make proof of service of three copies of the petition upon the respondent or her attorney as required by rule 32 of this court. The petition in this case was not filed until November n, 1937, yet the forty-day period prescribed by the statute and rules expired on November 3, 1937. For this reason the motion of respondent to dismiss the petition for leave to appeal is granted and the petition is hereby dismissed.
Petition for leave to appeal dismissed.