Brackett v. Osborne

The defendant, Bernice E. Osborne, appeals from a judgment entered in the City Court of Elgin, in the amount of $15,000, on the verdict of a jury in favor of the plaintiff, Charles K. Brackett, in an action to recover damages for personal injuries allegedly caused by the defendant’s negligence on June 23, 1961 in backing her automobile into a scaffold from which the plaintiff and another employee were painting the defendant’s parents’ home, causing the scaffold to tip and the plaintiff to fall to the ground. The defendant’s post trial motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict, or a new…