Mauro v. Peterson

This is an interlocutory appeal pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 308 (87 Ill. 2d R. 308) from an order of the circuit court of Cook County denying defendant’s motion to transfer venue to Livingston County and certifying the following question of law for our review:

“Whether an objection to venue, raised in a timely fashion by Motion to Transfer Venue is waived once the defendant files a general appearance.”

In granting defendant’s application for leave to appeal, we agreed with the trial court’s determination that this question raises a substantial basis for a difference of opinion, and that an…