Doerr v. Palm

This is an appeal from an order granting plaintiff’s motion for a new trial after a jury verdict in favor of defendant.

On August 28, 1963, Herbert J. Palm operated a Chevrolet automobile in a southerly direction on Pulaski Road, approaching its intersection with Wellington St, in the City of Chicago. Plaintiff Doerr was the driver of a Mercury station wagon which was also facing in a southerly direction on Pulaski Road, but was stopped at the aforesaid intersection waiting for the red traffic control light to change. Plaintiff Dolan was a passenger in the Mercury. It further appears that…