Dolan v. Galluzzo

The circuit court of Winnebago County permitted the plaintiff, Robert J. Dolan, and the defendant, Dr. M. A. Galluzzo, to take an interlocutory appeal from an order in limine. The appellate court affirmed (62 Ill. App. 3d 832), and we granted the plaintiff leave to appeal (65 Ill. 2d R. 315).

The plaintiff brought a malpractice action against the defendant, a licensed podiatrist (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1973, ch. 91, par. 73 et seq.), for an allegedly negligent osteotomy (surgical cutting of a bone) performed on his left foot in 1974. The plaintiff also alleged the defendant failed to obtain his…