Hertz Corp. v. Garrott

This is the second time that the above-named parties have come before this court. The issues raised in the present appeal were briefed and presented in a previous appeal. (Hertz Corp. v. Garrott (1990), 207 Ill. App. 3d 644, 566 N.E.2d 337.) However, the merits of the issues raised were never reached in that appeal because we found that the trial court’s rulings had been premature. Consequently, we reversed the order appealed from and remanded the cause for further proceedings.

We further indicated in our opinion in the previous appeal that, upon the completion of proceedings in the lower…