Maynard v. Parker

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE STENGEL

delivered the opinion of the court:

After he was injured in an automobile accident, plaintiff Russell Maynard retained attorney Louis E. Olivero who filed a personal injury suit in the Circuit Court of Bureau County. Pursuant to “An Act providing for a lien for nonprofit hospitals ° ° (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1975, ch. 82, par. 97 et seq.), the Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis, who are the corporate owners and operators of St. Francis Hospital in Peoria, perfected a hospital lien for *11,028 against plaintiff’s personal injury claim. The lien was for the unpaid…