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Schiro v. Cummings

Appellate Court of Illinois, Chicago, First District
Feb 28, 1944
321 Ill. App. 640 (Ill. App. Ct. 1944)

Opinion

Gen. No. 42,880. (Abstract of Decision.)

Opinion filed February 28, 1944 Rehearing denied March 14, 1944

AUTOMOBILES AND MOTOR VEHICLES, § 226.1when question of contributory negligence of plaintiff in streetcar collision case is question for jury. In action for personal and property damages, claimed to have been sustained when, in daytime, plaintiff's tractor and trailer were struck at city street intersection by defendants' streetcar which had approached from plaintiff's left, held that, under evidence, question of contributory negligence on part of plaintiff could not be disposed of as matter of law but was question for jury, and that defendants were not entitled to directed verdict in their favor on ground of alleged existence of such negligence.

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

Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. WILLIAM J. LINDSAY, Judge, presiding.

Affirmed. Heard in the first division, first district, this court at the October term, 1943.

Frank L. Kriete, Charles E. Green and Arthur J. Donovan, for appellants;

William J. Flaherty, of counsel;

Cohon Goldstein, for appellee.


Not to be published in full. Opinion filed February 28, 1944; rehearing denied March 14, 1944.


Summaries of

Schiro v. Cummings

Appellate Court of Illinois, Chicago, First District
Feb 28, 1944
321 Ill. App. 640 (Ill. App. Ct. 1944)
Case details for

Schiro v. Cummings

Case Details

Full title:Lawrence Schiro, Appellee, v. Walter J. Cummings, Receiver, et al.…

Court:Appellate Court of Illinois, Chicago, First District

Date published: Feb 28, 1944

Citations

321 Ill. App. 640 (Ill. App. Ct. 1944)
52 N.E.2d 189