Ceeder v. Kowach

PRESIDING JUSTICE KILEY

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a personal injury action with verdict and judgment for defendant. Plaintiff has appealed.

On January 26, 1954, about 3:15 P.M., plaintiff and defendant were driving their automobiles in a northeasterly direction on Ogden Avenue in Chicago. Both cars were in the same lane with defendant ten or fifteen feet to the rear. About one hundred feet west of the Kostner Avenue intersection, both cars were held up momentarily by traffic. When they started again defendant stayed about the same distance to the rear at a speed of ten to…