Richards v. Leimbacher

This is an appeal from an order of the circuit court of Will County dismissing the complaint of the plaintiff, Francis X. Richards, for failure to state a cause of action. The trial court further awarded costs to the defendants, Earl S. Leimbacher, M. D., and Howard L. Sather, M.D., and dismissed the complaint without prejudice as to the defendant, John G. Satter, on the grounds that plaintiff failed to use reasonable diligence in obtaining service of process on Satter.

Francis X. Richards, plaintiff-appellant, whom we shall refer to as plaintiff, was initially a defendant in a collection…