Fisk v. Shunick

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE GUILD

delivered the opinion of the court: The question presented herein is the effect of, and the applicability of, the amendment to the Probate Act lowering the age of majority for males to the age of 18 (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1971, ch. 3, par. 131) and its application to the pertinent sections of the statute of limitations of the State of Illinois tolling the two-year statute of limitation for personal actions as to males “within the age of twenty-one years” (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1971, ch. 83, par. 22) under the prior statute or “within the age of 18 years” under the statute, as…