Moyer v. Vaughan's Seed Store

Plaintiff brought suit against the defendant to recover the expenses he was put to in repairing his automobile which he claimed was occasioned by defendant’s negligence. The jury returned a verdict in favor of plaintiff for $772.50, upon which judgment was entered and the defendant appeals.

About 6.50 o’clock of the evening of November 17, 1922, plaintiff’s automobile, a five-passenger touring car was being driven east in Ogden Avenue in the vicinity of Downers Grove, Du Page county, Illinois. The evening was dark and there was a drizzling rain falling so that the driver of the automobile…