Joiner v. Birch

JUDGE CULBERTSON

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Hardin County, Illinois, in which the Court below, at the close of Plaintiff’s case, directed a verdict of not guilty and entered judgment on such verdict. The action complained of, which resulted in the directed verdict and on which the ensuing judgment was entered, was to recover damages on behalf of Plaintiff, Alberta Joiner, as Administratrix, by reason of the alleged wilful and wanton conduct of defendant, Eugene F. Birch, in driving his automobile in which the plaintiffs’…