Ziekert v. Cox

PRESIDING JUSTICE FREEMAN

delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiff, Kenneth Ziekert, sued defendant, David Cox, for personal injuries sustained when defendant’s automobile rear-ended plaintiff’s automobile on the Kennedy expressway. At the close of all the evidence, the trial court granted plaintiff directed verdicts finding that he had not been contributorily negligent and that defendant had been negligent, as a matter of law. Thereafter, the jury awarded plaintiff $96,500 in damages. Defendant appeals.

At trial, plaintiff testified that he left his office in downtown Chicago at…