Opinion
Gen. No. 43,090. (Abstract of Decision.)
Opinion filed October 23, 1944 Released for publication November 6, 1944
AUTOMOBILES AND MOTOR VEHICLES, § 167.2 — reversal of judgment for injured pedestrian because of refusal of defendant's instruction on contributory negligence. Judgment for damages for personal injuries, sustained by plaintiff pedestrian when, in city street, he was struck by defendant's truck, held required to be reversed because of trial court's refusal to give contributory negligence instruction offered by defendant. MATCHETT, J., dissenting.
See Callaghan's Illinois Digest, same topic and section number.
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. DANIEL P. TRUDE, Judge, presiding. Reversed and remanded. Heard in the first division, first district, this court at the June term, 1944.
Hubbard, Baker Rice, for appellant.
J.S. Cook, for appellee.
Not to be published in full. Opinion filed October 23, 1944; released for publication November 6, 1944.