AUTOMOBILES AND MOTOR VEHICLES, § 117.1 — when judgment for collision-defendant based on alleged speed at intersection is against manifest weight of evidence. In action for damage to plaintiff's automobile, resulting from daytime collision with defendant's automobile at city-street intersection, where defendant testified that he slowed down to 10 or 12 miles per hour at intersection and could have stopped his car in 4 or 5 feet while proceeding at that speed, and yet his automobile, after impact with plaintiff's car, ran 32 feet across street, striking and displacing water plug, held that trial court's finding in favor of defendant was clearly against manifest weight of evidence.
See Callaghan's Illinois Digest, same topic and section number.
Opinion by PRESIDING JUSTICE LEWE.
Not to be published in full. Opinion filed June 4, 1947; released for publication June 19, 1947.