Donaldson v. Copeland

The plaintiff in error brought an action on the case against the defendant in error and four others to recover damages in the sum of §25,.000, sustained, as the decía ration alleged, by unskillful and negligent medical treatment. The declaration was filed ten days prior to the first day of the April term, 1899, of the superior court of Cook county. At said April term the action was dismissed as to all the defendants except the defendant in error and D. G. Allender, the latter of whom had not been served with summons. Default wras entered against the defendant in error for want of a plea, and…