Miller v. Vancil

Mr. Presiding Justice Wheat

delivered the opinion of the court.

Plaintiff appellee, Avery Miller, obtained a judgment based upon a jury verdict, against defendants appellants W. T. Vaneil and others, doing business as Vaneil’s Funeral Home, in the sum of $2,500 for damages arising out of a collision between plaintiff’s automobile and defendants’ automobile ambulance. Motion for judgment notwithstanding, the verdict was denied and this appeal follows.

The complaint charges that on June 14, 1947, at about 4:20 p. m., plaintiff was driving his car northerly on Peoria Road near the intersection of…