Elden v. Addison Farmers Mutual Insurance

This is an appeal from an order of the Circuit Court of the Sixteenth Judicial Circuit, entered on December 6, 1966, dismissing the amended complaint of the plaintiff —a lawyer — , from which he appealed, pro se.

The plaintiff filed notice of appeal on February 1,1967, and under the Rules of Court effective when said order was entered, he had 50 days after the filing of notice of appeal within which to cause a report of trial proceedings to be made up, presented, certified and filed in the trial court. Extensions of time for the filing of such report could be granted by the trial court for a…