Jenkins v. Bobrowicz

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE SEIDENFELD

delivered the opinion of the court:

In a trial to recover for injuries received by the plaintiff Gary H. Jenkins as the result of an intersection collision with the defendant James Bobrowicz, a jury entered a general verdict for the plaintiff in the amount of $10,500, but also, in answer to a special interrogatory, found the plaintiff guilty of contributory negligence. The trial judge found that the jury’s answer to the special interrogatory was against the manifest weight of the evidence and that section 65 of the Civil Practice Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1979, ch.…