Northern Trust Co. v. Chicago Railways Co.

In my opinion the fourth count, as amended April 18, 1922, was not subject to the one-year-limitation period provided for in the Injuries Act, for the count, as amended, set up in substance the same cause of action as that set up in the original count. So far as any limitation or condition imposed on the plaintiff’s right of action is concerned, the ordinance pleaded in the amendment must be considered as a re-enactment of the ordinance pleaded in the original count. Ill. St. ch. 131, sec. 2. [Cahill’s Ill. St. ch. 131, ¶ 2.]

But, I am further of the opinion that neither the original fourth…