Brown v. Forest Park Foundation

The plaintiff, J. Gale Brown, an architect, filed a complaint on October 7, 1971, for the amount he alleged was due him from the defendant, Forest Park Foundation, a not-for-profit corporation, for architectural services he had rendered in 1966 under an oral contract. The defendant filed a motion for summary judgment, claiming that the statute of limitations barred the plaintiff’s cause of action. The Circuit Court of Peoria County, Illinois, granted the defendant’s motion, and the plaintiff has appealed.

It appears from the plaintiff’s complaint that on or about March 21, 1966, the parties…