Legal Opinion
Bledsoe v. Amiel
Appellate Court of Illinois
Decided January 25, 1978No. 76-1218PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE JIGANTI
delivered the opinion of the court:
This appeal by the plaintiff, Eugene Bledsoe, questions the adequacy of damages awarded to him by a jury for injuries he sustained in a motor vehicle collision. Bledsoe claims that the verdict of *264, an amount precisely equal to the cost of his medical treatment, does not provide for all proper elements of damages, disregarding the lost wages, disability and pain and suffering which he proved at trial.
The collision occurred on December 16, 1973, in an alleyway. A car driven by the defendant, Barry Amiel, struck the left front…
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