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Shennan v. Chrispens Truck Lines, Inc.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District
Oct 26, 1942
316 Ill. App. 160 (Ill. App. Ct. 1942)

Opinion

Gen. No. 42,165. (Abstract of Decision.)

Opinion filed October 26, 1942 Rehearing denied November 9, 1942

AUTOMOBILES AND MOTOR VEHICLES, § 103.2relevancy of evidence as to cause of collision. Where defendants' tractor and an automobile owned by one plaintiff and driven by another collided while rounding a curve, to personal injury and property damage of plaintiffs, and the jury returned a verdict for defendants, evidence of gouge marks in the highway as caused by the tractor as it was knocked over on its side in the collision offered by plaintiffs was some evidence tending to show that part of the tractor was over the center line to cause the collision, and for errors in admission and exclusion of evidence, the cause was reversed and remanded.

See Callaghan's Illinois Digest, same topic and section number.

Appeal from Superior Court of Cook county; Hon. JOHN J. LUPE, presiding.

Reversed and remanded. Heard in first division, first district, this court at February term, 1942.

Walter W. Ross, Jr., Owen Rall and John B. Phillips, for appellants;

Harold W. Huff, of counsel;

Lord, Bissell Kadyk, for appellees;

Austin V. Clifford and Bruce S. Parkhill, of counsel.


"Not to be published in full." Opinion filed October 26, 1942; rehearing denied November 9, 1942.


Summaries of

Shennan v. Chrispens Truck Lines, Inc.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District
Oct 26, 1942
316 Ill. App. 160 (Ill. App. Ct. 1942)
Case details for

Shennan v. Chrispens Truck Lines, Inc.

Case Details

Full title:Ruth Rich Shennan and Joseph E. Rick, Appellants, v. Chrispens Truck…

Court:Appellate Court of Illinois, First District

Date published: Oct 26, 1942

Citations

316 Ill. App. 160 (Ill. App. Ct. 1942)
44 N.E.2d 339

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