Wells v. Village of Kenilworth

Mr. Presiding Justice McSurely

delivered the opinion of the court.

By this appeal plaintiff seeks the reversal of an adverse judgment entered upon a directed verdict in an action to recover damages sustained to plaintiff’s automobile as the result of a collision between it and a safety island lamp-post standing in the center of Sheridan road at Kenilworth avenue in the Village of Kenilworth, Illinois."

Sheridan road runs north and south. Kenilworth avenue intersects it running east and west. At the intersection defendant had placed two safety islands in the center of Sheridan road, one in line…