Klaus v. Sheets

There is for consideration here, the correctness of the ruling of the trial court in refusing to grant a new trial on behalf of the plaintiff on the verdict of a jury finding the defendant “not guilty.”

Plaintiff, a minor aged twenty, years, brought suit against the defendant alleging general negligence and that the defendant had stopped his truck so that a part of it extended over the plaintiff’s traffic lane, without exhibiting a red light on the rear, violating ch. 95%, pars. 195 and 204 of the Illinois Statute [Jones Ill. Stats. Ann. 85.227, 85.236].

Plaintiff was a rear-seat guest occupant…