Coumoulas v. Service Gas, Inc.

The plaintiff, Paul Coumoulas, filed an action against Service Gas Incorporated, the defendant, in 1971. He alleged that he incurred damages in 1966 from a fire caused by defendant’s negligent installation of a gas broiler in 1959. Defendant filed a motion to dismiss on the ground that the action was not instituted within 5 years after the cause of action accrued as required by Ill. Rev. Stat. 1971, ch. 83, sec. 16. Plaintiff appeals from the order which granted defendant’s motion and dismissed the cause.

Plaintiff has argued solely that the cause of action did not accrue within the terms of…