Jones v. Hutchins

PRESIDING JUSTICE FRIEND

delivered the opinion of the court.

Plaintiff brought suit against defendant to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by him as the driver of one of several southbound automobiles involved in multiple collisions in heavy traffic on the Outer Drive in Chicago about six-thirty in the evening on October 4, 1954. Trial by jury resulted in a verdict and judgment for defendant, from which plaintiff appeals.

In June 1958 defendant moved to dismiss the appeal on the grounds that there was no judgment in the record, that the report of trial…