Hines v. Dresser Industries, Inc.

PRESIDING JUSTICE JONES

delivered the opinion of the court:

In a case of first impression in Illinois, we consider whether a waiver of objection to an improper venue by one defendant to a lawsuit precludes a codefendant from making his own objection to the improper venue. Pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 308 (87 Ill. 2d R. 308), we granted defendants’ application for leave to appeal from an order of the trial court that denied the separate motions of the defendants to dismiss or, in the alternative, to transfer venue. The questions certified by the trial court were:

“(a) When a tort action' is…