Legal Opinion
Yakstis v. William J. Diestelhorst Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Decided July 3, 1978No. 77-484PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE EBERSPACHER
delivered the opinion of the court:
Defendants, William J. Diestelhorst Co., Inc., and William J. Diestelhorst, appeal from a jury verdict of *175,000 awarded against them in a wrongful death action brought by the estate of Darrell W. Wilkinson in the circuit court of Madison County.
Early on the morning of November 28,1973, Diestelhorst called Darrell Wilkinson to ask Wilkinson to haul the company’s Case 680C backhoe from Cottage Hills to Litchfield as a favor to him. Diestelhorst explained to him that the trucks Diestelhorst ordinarily used to transport the…
2Cases cited17 opinions
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- Shore v. TurmanAppellate Court of Illinois · 1965
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3Cited by5 opinions
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