{"id":4475,"date":"2014-11-25T10:00:57","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T16:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=4475"},"modified":"2014-11-21T20:25:35","modified_gmt":"2014-11-22T02:25:35","slug":"illinois-appellate-court-agrees-plaintiff-timely-name-correct-defendant-case-dismissed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-agrees-plaintiff-timely-name-correct-defendant-case-dismissed\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Appellate Court Agrees that Plaintiff Did Not Timely Name the Correct Defendant; Case Dismissed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ann E. Guiffrida\u2019s personal injury case against the owner of a bar called The Palace in downstate <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hamburg,_Illinois\">Hamburg<\/a>, Ill., was dismissed because the plaintiff had mixed up the names of two corporations. One was The Palace Inc. and the other was Boothy\u2019s Palace Tavern Inc.<\/p>\n<p>Guiffrida filed a lawsuit in the federal district of the Central District of Illinois naming the defendant The Palace Inc. When venue was challenged, Hamburg, Ill., located on the Mississippi River, 80 miles north of St. Louis, is in the Southern District of Illinois, not the Central District. Guiffrida voluntarily dismissed the federal case and then filed the state claim in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.co.madison.il.us\/\">Madison County, Ill.<\/a>, although Hamburg is actually in Calhoun County, Ill.<\/p>\n<p>When Guiffrida found out that she should have sued and served Boothy\u2019s Palace Tavern Inc., she argued that this was merely a case of misidentifying the correct name or a misnomer that is covered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilga.gov\/legislation\/ilcs\/ilcs5.asp?ActID=2017&amp;ChapterID=56\">Section 2-401 of the Illinois Code of Civil Procedure.<\/a> Rather than a mistake of the identify by the defendant, which would have required Guiffrida to satisfy Section 2-616(d) as to relating back, the judge in Madison County concluded that the mix-up fell within the category of misnomer.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-agrees-plaintiff-timely-name-correct-defendant-case-dismissed\/#more-4475\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ann E. Guiffrida\u2019s personal injury case against the owner of a bar called The Palace in downstate Hamburg, Ill., was dismissed because the plaintiff had mixed up the names of two corporations. One was The Palace Inc. and the other was Boothy\u2019s Palace Tavern Inc. Guiffrida filed a lawsuit in the federal district of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45,22,56,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-accidents","category-illinois-civil-procedure","category-personal-injury","category-trial-practice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Illinois Appellate Court Agrees that Plaintiff Did Not Timely Name the Correct Defendant; Case Dismissed &#8212; Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ann E. 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