Manny Cab Co. v. McNeil Teaming Co.

Plaintiffs, Manny Cab Company and Dave Silverman, appeal from an order of the circuit court which granted defendants’ petition, pursuant to section 72 of the Civil Practice Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1973, ch. 110, par. 72), to vacate a default judgment, and denied plaintiffs’ motion to strike the same. The rather unusual facts which give rise to this appeal, so far as can be discerned from the record presented, are as follows:

On October 12, 1970, a complaint was filed by plaintiffs seeking recovery for injuries sustained as a result of a vehicular collision on October 22, 1968, at Ohio and Halsted…