Kole v. Brubaker

How courts have described this case

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• the plaintiff has a “nondelegable duty” to deliver summons to the sheriff or special process server to ensure a prompt and proper return of service
• “Plaintiff had a nondelegable duty to deliver summons to the sheriff and to ensure that a prompt and proper return was made.”
• “Although controversies should ordinarily be resolved on their merits after both sides have had their day in court, a plaintiff may not complain where the dismissal resulted from [the plaintiff’s] own lack of diligence in effectuating service.”
• citing, inter alia, Segal, 136 Ill. 2d at 286
• delay of nine months in effectuating service of process

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).