Nudd v. Matsoukas

This case comes here on a petition for leave to appeal from a decision of the Appellate Court for the First District, 6 Ill. App. 2d 504, which affirmed the action of the superior Court of Cook County in dismissing, on motion of defendants, two wrongful death actions brought by Hubert Nudd, as administrator, and a suit brought by a minor against his father for wilful and wanton misconduct.

The facts as set out in the pleadings are that William Matsoukas, Sr., one of the defendants, on October 26, 1952, was driving a vehicle on a public highway. With him in the automobile were Elizabeth…