Ryan v. Fleischman

This appeal arises out of an automobile accident that occurred in Lombard, Ulinois, on December 20, 1975. After hearing the evidence, a Du Page County jury returned a verdict in favor of the defendantappellee, Linda Fleischman, hereafter the defendant. By way of a special interrogatory the jury also found the plaintiff-appellant, Michael Ryan, hereafter the plaintiff, to be contributorily negligent. The plaintiff has appealed, raising three possible grounds for reversing the judgment of the trial court. First, he contends the jury’s verdict was contrary to the manifest weight of the evidence.…