Levin v. Welsh Brothers Motor Service, Inc.

In this action for personal injuries, defendant Welsh Brothers Motor Service, Inc. (Welsh), appeals from the judgment for $797,860 entered against it by the circuit court of Cook County on a jury verdict in favor of plaintiff Harry Levin (Levin), and from the order denying Welsh’s post-trial motion. The case involves a collision between Welsh’s tractor-trailer and Levin’s passenger automobile that occurred on March 21,1979, in Morton Grove, Illinois.

On liability, Welsh contends that (1) the jury’s findings that negligence by Welsh was a proximate cause of Levin’s injuries, and that 82% of the…