Peithman v. Beals

Plaintiff appeals from a summary judgment entered in favor of the defendant, Thomas Brehm.

The issue was determined below upon the complaint and the facts disclosed in the discovery deposition of Brehm. Plaintiff, Winona Peithman, was a passenger in an automobile which had been stopped at a construction barricade on Route 10, west of Champaign, Illinois. Brehm, travelling in the same direction, had stopped one or two car lengths behind plaintiff’s automobile. His car had its lights, including taillights, burning. While the two cars were standing for something less than a minute, one Beals…