Pierce v. MacNeal Memorial Hospital Ass'n

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE GOLDBERG

delivered the opinion of the court:

In this rather unusual piece of litigation, one participating group (defendants) seeks to avoid a conditional settlement agreement incorporated within a consent decree. The principal defendant, The MacNeal Memorial Hospital Association (Hospital), was organized in 1919; reorganized in 1931 and adopted its present name in 1962. It is subject to the General Not For Profit Corporation Act^of Illinois (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1975, ch. 32, par. 163a et seq.). There are four individual defendants; all of them are members of the Hospital’s…