Wilbon v. D. F. Bast Co.

Plaintiff, Stella Wilbon, administrator of the estate of Lonnie Wilbon, deceased, appealed from the judgment of the circuit court of Cook County entered upon allowance of defendants’, Joseph T. Mehalic and D. F. Bast Co., Inc.’s, motion to dismiss. The appellate court reversed as to the claims of two minor plaintiffs (48 Ill. App. 3d 98) and remanded the cause for further proceedings. We allowed defendants’ petition for leave to appeal.

In her four-count complaint filed pursuant to the Wrongful Death Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1971, ch. 70, pars. 1, 2) plaintiff sought to recover damages for the…