Coleman v. Scott

This is a proceeding brought by defendant Estelle Scott under section 72 of the Civil Practice Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1965, chap. 110, par. 72) to vacate a $10,000 judgment entered against her on January 5, 1965. The circuit court of Cook County denied her petition, and the order was affirmed by the appellate court (Coleman v. Scott, 76 Ill. App. 2d 417). We granted her leave to appeal further to this court. No brief has been filed by the plaintiff.

The original action was begun in 1959 in what was then the municipal court of Chicago. It was a suit by a tenant against her landlady for personal…