Nelson v. Stutz Chicago Factory Branch, Inc.

In an action for damages for negligently causing the death of plaintiff’s intestate, a boy about 10 years of age, on April 10, 1927, as the result of a collision between an automobile in which he was a passenger and defendant’s automobile, driven by its servant, Joseph R. Smith, on the outer driveway in Lincoln Park, just north of North Avenue, Chicago, there was a trial before a jury in November, 1928, resulting in a verdict and judgment against defendant for $10,000. This appeal followed.

It was sufficiently proven upon the trial, and is here admitted, that the automobile which collided with…