Tidwell v. Smith

This is an action testing the applicability of section 24 of the Limitations Act, (Ill Rev Stats 1963, c 83, par 24a) which provides in part that:

“In any of the actions specified in any of the sections of this act ... if the plaintiff . . . shall be nonsuited, then, if the time limited for bringing such action shall have expired during the pendency of such suit, the said plaintiff . . . may commence a new action within one year after such judgment reversed or given against the plaintiff, and not after.”

Chronologically, this case was first docketed in the Circuit Court of Winnebago County on…