LEVANTI v. DORRIS

Term No. 51F1.

343 Ill. App. 355 (1951)

99 N.E.2d 398

Minnie Levanti, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Eugene Dorris, Administrator of Estate of Aline Covelli, Deceased, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois.

Released for publication June 22, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

GORDON FRANKLIN, N.C. GARRISON, and DAVID A. WARFORD, all of Marion, for appellant.

LEONARD J. DUNN, of West Frankfort, and HILL, MOORE & HILL, of Benton, for appellee.


MR. JUSTICE BARDENS delivered the opinion of the court.

By this appeal defendant seeks reversal of a judgment entered by the circuit court of Franklin county in favor of the plaintiff for the sum of $8,000. The judgment was rendered on a verdict of the jury for that amount and the jury also returned a special interrogatory to the effect that defendant's intestate was guilty of wilful and wanton misconduct.

On the evening of August 9, 1948, at about seven o...

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