Bennett v. Illinois Power & Light Corp.

The defendant in error, Mabel Bennett, as plaintiff in the city court of Kewanee, recovered a verdict and judgment for $9600 against the plaintiff in error. The Appellate Court for the Second District having affirmed the judgment, the cause is here on writ of certiorari by leave of this court.

The plaintiff’s declaration was in two counts. The first count alleged that she was riding in a buggy behind a horse which was driven by a nineteen-year-old boy; that the defendant had, shortly prior to this occasion, negligently, carelessly and unlawfully placed upon the south side of the public highway…