Daily v. Hartley

This case involves an appeal from an order of the Circuit Court of Will County dismissing the complaint of plaintiff Clarence R. Daily with prejudice pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 103(b) (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1977, ch. 110A, par. 103(b)) on the grounds that he had not been diligent in obtaining service upon the now deceased defendant Richard Mac Farlane. For the reasons stated hereafter, we affirm.

The plaintiff Daily and Richard Mac Farlane were union pipefitters. Early in 1968 they had become acquainted through their work at a Rexall Chemical plant in Will County. On May 22 of that year Mac…