Redick v. M. B. Thomas Auto Sales, Inc.

Plaintiff, a motor truck operator, sought damages in the sum of $75,000 for personal injuries sustained when a tractor-trailer truck driven northward by him on U. S. Highway 66 near Pontiac, Illinois, collided with the rear end of defendant’s automobile transport tractor-trailer truck also headed northward on said highway. The petition alleged and the trial court submitted to the jury the issues of defendant’s negligently causing or permitting the stopping of its truck upon the highway and its negligent failure to have rear lights thereon. Defendant denied the acts of negligence charged…