Aranda v. Hobart Manufacturing Corp.

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE GOLDBERG

delivered the opinion of the court:

Eloy J. Aranda (plaintiff) brought suit against The Hobart Manufacturing Corporation (defendant) and another party. After dismissal for want of prosecution, another suit was filed in his behalf. In due course the trial court dismissed the second suit under Supreme Court Rule 103(b). (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1973, ch. 110A, R. 103(b).) Plaintiff appeals.

Plaintiff contends that the filing of his second action was permitted within the letter of the applicable provision of the limitations statute (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1973, ch. 83, par. 24a) and…