Safety-Kleen Corp. v. Canadian Universal Insurance

PRESIDING JUSTICE INGLIS

delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant, Sheldon Whitehouse, domestic receiver for Canadian Universal Insurance Company (CU), appeals the order of the circuit court of Kane County denying a petition for relief from a default judgment entered by that court against CU and in favor of plaintiff, Safety-Kleen Corporation (Safety-Kleen). For the following reasons, we reverse the decision of the trial court denying defendant’s petition for relief from the default judgment.

The common-law record indicates that for a period of 13½ months in 1979 and 1980 CU insured…