Johnson v. Stotts

The plaintiff, Sherrill Lynn Johnson, a minor, by Carl E. Johnson and Lula Katherine Johnson, her next friends, obtained a judgment for $16,000 against the defendant Glenn Stotts, for personal injuries resulting from being struck by the automobile owned and driven by Glenn Stotts, in the City of Virginia, Cass county, Illinois. The defendant appeals from such judgment.

On the 19th day of August A.D. 1949, the plaintiff, a minor child then of the age of four years, in company with two other small children, was crossing the main street in the City of Virginia, Illinois, and was struck by the…