JOHNSON v. BOWERS

Civ. A. No. 3507.

151 F.Supp. 777 (1957)

Mary Ruth JOHNSON, Plaintiff, v. Henry Curtis BOWERS, Defendant.

United States District Court E. D. Illinois.

June 3, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard L. Minton, McLeansboro, Ill., and Ivan A. Elliott, Carmi, Ill., for plaintiff.

Kramer, Campbell, Costello & Wiechert, East St. Louis, Ill., for defendant.


JUERGENS, District Judge.

Plaintiff filed her amended complaint charging the defendant with willful and wanton acts or omissions committed with a conscious indifference to surrounding circumstances and conditions by so driving his automobile, wherein the plaintiff was a passenger, that it left the highway, turned over several times in which the plaintiff was injured. She asked for $20,000 and costs of suit.

The cause was tried to a jury, which under the instructions...

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