Jones v. Brill

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE ROMITI

delivered the opinion of the court:

The plaintiffs, Richard Jones and Delores Jones, husband and wife, appeal from the dismissal of their medical malpractice action as barred by the statute of limitations. We hold that where the alleged malpractice occurred in 1971 but was not discovered until 1979, an amendment effective in 1976 reducing the period in which suit could be filed from ten to four years is inapplicable to bar the action and reverse.

The alleged malpractice occurred on October 28,1971 when defendants allegedly failed to remove certain stitches from…