Hicks v. Smith

CARL R. GAERTNER, Judge.

Plaintiff appeals from a judgment entered on a jury verdict in favor of defendants, claiming both instructional error and error in failing to admit certain evidence at trial. We affirm.

On October 5, 1981, plaintiff Adrienne Hicks, who was a passenger in an automobile driven by Maurice Butler, sustained injuries when Butler’s car collided with a truck owned by defendant ITT-Grinnell Corporation and operated by its employee, defendant Clarence Smith. The incident occurred at Jefferson and Cass Avenues, an intersection controlled by electric traffic signals. Butler was…