Gillan v. Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee Railway Co.

Mr. Presiding Justice Niemeyer

delivered the opinion of the court.

Defendant appeals from a judgment for $50,000 entered in plaintiff’s action for personal injuries resulting from a collision between the automobile in which he was riding as a guest and an electric train of defendant at the intersection of Washington avenue and defendant’s tracks in Highwood, Illinois a few minutes before 6 a. m., February 7, 1952. The sole contention on appeal is that the trial court should have directed a verdict for defendant or sustained its motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict because there was…