Kassela v. Stonitsch

This case involves a collision between two vehicles on Catón Farm Road in Will County, a road running in an east-west direction. The collision occurred during daylight and in dry, clear weather. Catón Farm Road had a blacktop or tar pitch with no painted line dividing the eastbound and west-bound lanes. The speed, limit was 35 miles per hour. Plaintiff and defendant were the only eyewitnesses to the collision.

Plaintiff was driving west-bound and defendant in the opposite direction. When their vehicles collided, defendant was just over the crest of a hill 19 feet 4 inches above the bottom of…