Elg v. Whittington

This appeal addresses the question of whether a motion which is directed against an appealable circuit court judgment concerning one party or claim in a multiparty or multiclaim litigation will toll the running of the period for filing a timely notice of appeal. The circuit court dismissed the third-party complaint of the appellants, Walter Skeistaitis, Jr., and Aldona V. Skeistaitis. In the appellate court, appellants’ appeal from this judgment was dismissed as untimely. (149 Ill. App. 3d 307.) We granted appellants’ petition for leave to appeal (107 Ill. 2d R. 315).

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