Goshey v. Dunlap

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE DEMPSEY

delivered the opinion of the court:

The plaintiff, Jerry Goshey, filed a complaint for personal injuries received in an altercation with the defendant, Arthur Dunlap, which took place at the Cook County Hospital, where Dunlap was employed as a security guard. The County of Cook was also joined as a defendant. A jury returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff and against both defendants with damages assessed at $9,000.

At 2:00 P.M. on May 5, 1967, the plaintiff, a taxicab driver, went to the Cook County Hospital to pick up a woman and her baby who were being…