Opinion
Gen. No. 42,619. (Abstract of Decision.)
Opinion filed February 2, 1944
AUTOMOBILES AND MOTOR VEHICLES, § 131 — when questions of negligence and contributory negligence are questions of fact. In action for personal injury and property damage as result of collision between plaintiff's car and defendant's truck, tried without jury, wherein evidence was to effect, among other things, that left view of plaintiff, who had stopped at red traffic control light, was blocked by bus which had stopped to his left, and who started after bus did so, when signal light changed to green, and continued on in first gear, at about six miles per hour, after bus subsequently stopped as though to make left turn but thereafter himself stopped "on dot," and that truck, which came from left, drove through amber light at speed of 15 miles per hour, held that questions of negligence and contributory negligence were questions of fact for trial judge.
See Callaghan's Illinois Digest, same topic and section number.
Appeal from the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. JOSEPH H. McGARRY, Judge, presiding.
Judgment affirmed. Heard in the third division, first district, this court at the April term, 1943.
James A. Dooley, for appellant;
Ringer, Reinwald Sostrin, for appellee;
Morris Sostrin, of counsel.
Not to be published in full. Opinion filed February 2, 1944.