Berg v. Michell

Henry Berg, the plaintiff below, had a verdict against Dr. George Michell, the defendant below, of $12,000, in a suit for damages for injuries sustained by the plaintiff who was struck while a foot passenger on a street in Peoria by an automobile driven by the defendant. The plaintiff remitted $2,500 from the verdict, and the court entered judgment for $9,500, from which the defendant prosecutes this writ of ’error. The declaration charged as negligence of the defendant in the first count negligent running of the automobile, in the second and third, running in the closely built up business…