Creditors Discount & Audit, Inc. v. Zook

PRESIDING JUSTICE GREEN

delivered the opinion of the court:

These consolidated appeals concern the application of section 2— 202(a) of the Code of Civil Procedure (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1983, ch. 110, par. 2—202(a)), which designates those individuals who may serve process. The section states in part that “[t]he [circuit] court may, in its discretion upon motion, order service to be made by a private person over 18 years of age and not a party to the action.” In case No. 4— 84—0606, the issue is whether the circuit court has authority to fix a fee for the private process server and tax that fee as…