Dumpert v. Liechty

PRESIDING JUSTICE THOMAS MORAN

delivered the opinion of the court.

A petition was allowed by this Court for leave to appeal from an order of the trial court granting a new trial.

The sole issue is whether the verdict returned by the jury was against the manifest weight of the evidence.

The plaintiff, a woman of 78 years, was walking north on the east side of Main Street as it crossed Front Street in Wheaton, Illinois. She was wearing black and was in the pedestrian crosswalk at the time the defendant Liechty’s car struck her. Although darkness had fallen, the intersection was well illuminated by…