Vanderwall v. Beard

Full title: Theodore Vanderwall, Appellant, v. W. F. Beard, Appellee

Court: Appellate Court of Illinois, Second District

Date published: Jan 25, 1940

303 Ill. App. 339 (Ill. App. Ct. 1940)

25 N.E.2d 98

Opinion

Gen. No. 9,476. (Abstract of Decision.)

Opinion filed January 25, 1940.

AUTOMOBILES AND MOTOR VEHICLES, § 117.2^_ — collision with parked car, sufficiency of evidence. Where plaintiff's automobile was parked at the curb at night without lights, and defendant collided with same while traveling at a speed of 30 to 40 miles per hour, the street being poorly lighted at such point, finding of trial court against plaintiff and against defendant on his counterclaim was not contrary to manifest weight of the evidence.

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

Appeal from Circuit Court of Winnebago county; Hon. ARTHUR E. FISHER, presiding. Affirmed. Heard in this court at October term, 1939; opinion filed January 25, 1940.

Edward S. Foltz, Jr., for appellant; B. Jay Knight, J. E. Goembel and Frederick H. Haye, for appellee.

Opinion by JUSTICE HUFFMAN.

"Not to be published in full."