Bormann v. Hillebrand

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Massac County in favor of plaintiff, Doris Bormann, as Administrator of the Estate of Abraham Bormann, deceased, as against George Hillebrand, defendant, in the sum of $25,000, by reason of the wrongful death of the decedent, Abraham Bormann. The death resulted from the collision of the car being driven by the decedent with a guardrail and concrete abutment of a bridge on a blacktop road, which it was contended, resulted from the circumstance that defendant negligently increased the speed of his vehicle to a very high rate of speed…