Nenadic v. Grant Hospital

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE STAMOS

delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiff has appealed from orders of the trial court entered on November 2, December 23, and December 30, 1977. Those orders dismissed plaintiff’s medical malpractice cause of action and denied her subsequent motions to vacate that dismissal. In reality, however, plaintiff’s appeal culminates her various efforts to reopen the original default order entered on February 8, 1977. This appeal demonstrates the conflict between those policies which on the one hand recognize the need for finality in orders but on the other favor…