St. Francis Medical Center v. Vernon

Plaintiff, St. Francis Medical Center, appeals from an order of the circuit court of Union County dismissing with prejudice its first amended complaint. Defendants George W. Vernon, Jr., and Marilyn Vernon have not filed an appellees’ brief in this court. However, in First Capitol Mortgage Corp. v. Talandis Construction Corp. (1976), 63 Ill. 2d 128, 133, 345 N.E.2d 493, 495, our supreme court stated that in the absence of an appellee’s brief, if the appellant’s brief demonstrates prima facie reversible error and the contentions of the brief find support in the record, the judgment of the…