Little v. Scheu

This is a personal injury action in which the jury returned a $30,000 general verdict for plaintiff. The jury also answered a special interrogatory and found that plaintiff was “guilty of contributory negligence which proximately caused the injuries complained of.” The court entered a judgment in favor of the defendant. Plaintiff appeals from an order which denied his post-trial motion that the court set aside the answer to the special interrogatory as being against the manifest weight of the evidence.

On October 2, 1962, at approximately 9:45 p. m., plaintiff, an eastbound pedestrian in the…