Dunaway v. Fellous

Plaintiffs filed a direct appeal to this court pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 302 (134 Ill. 2d R. 302) from an adverse ruling of the circuit court of Madison County which held that it did not have jurisdiction over the persons of the defendants under the Illinois Dramshop Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1989, ch. 43, par. 135).

The plaintiffs, Robert W. Dunaway, Jr., a minor by and through his mother and next friend Jill Dunaway, Robert Dunaway, Sr., and Jill Dunaway, individually, filed a 10-count complaint on April 29, 1991. Counts I through V named Eighteen Thousand Corporation, d/b/a Orville &…