Abbs v. Rob Roy Country Club, Inc.

Defendant Homer D. Pauley appeals from a judgment for $4,000 entered on the verdict of a jury in an action to recover damages sustained by plaintiff’s minor son John Abbs, hereinafter called plaintiff, as a result of falling from a tractor driven by defendant’s employee and upon which plaintiff was riding. Defendant’s motions for judgment notwithstanding the verdict and, in the alternative, for a new trial were denied.

In September 1943, defendant Pauley operated, under a lease, a golf course known as the Rob Roy Country Club, located at the Village of Mount Prospect, Cook county, Illinois,…