Court Opinion

ID: 9739585
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 20:17:59.026779+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:24:13.001907
License: Public Domain

JUSTICE HARRISON, dissenting: Defendant’s motion to dismiss this case for want of jurisdiction was denied on May 6, 1983. Defendant then filed a motion to reconsider the court’s order. This motion to reconsider was not denied until June 20, 1983, more than 30 days after entry of the original order, and defendant did not seek to appeal the order until that time. This court has recently decided that the filing of a motion to reconsider in the trial court does not extend the time for filing a Rule 306 (87 Ill. 2d R. 306) petition beyond the “30 days after the entry of the order” allowed by the rule (Leet v. Louisville & Nashville R.R. Co. (1985), 131 Ill. App. 3d 763), and the majority’s implied conclusion that we have jurisdiction in this case is completely inconsistent with our holding in Leet. I would dismiss this appeal.