Stivers v. Black & Co.

Plaintiff appellant, Arlie Stivers, filed suit against Defendant Appellee, Black and Company, a corporation, in the circuit court of Sangamon county, Illinois, seeking recovery of damages alleged to have been sustained through the negligence of the defendant’s truck driver Andrew Gehrken, in striking and seriously injuring the plaintiff, a pedestrian, while crossing North Main street in an easterly direction with due care and caution for his own safety on a certain crosswalk located on the northerly intersecting line of Main and Green streets in the City of Decatur. Upon trial by jury, a…