BANOVZ v. RANTANEN

No. 5-94-0095.

649 N.E.2d 977 (1995)

271 Ill.App.3d 910

208 Ill.Dec. 617

Brian BANOVZ, Plaintiff, v. Raymond RANTANEN, Defendant-Appellant (Joseph Seketa, Plaintiff-Appellee; Mickow Corporation et al., Defendants).

Appellate Court of Illinois, Fifth District.

April 26, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Reed, Armstrong, Gorman, Coffee, Thomson, Gilbert & Mudge, P.C., Harry C. Armstrong, Stephen W. Thomson, Charles C. Compton, Edwardsville, for appellant.

Matthew J. Padberg, James P. Leonard, Padberg, McSweeney, Slater & Merz, St. Louis, MO, for appellee.


Justice WELCH delivered the opinion of the court:

In the early morning of December 29, 1990, plaintiffs Brian Banovz and Joseph Seketa were involved in a multi-vehicle accident on Interstate 270 in Madison County. They were passengers in a car driven by defendant-appellant, Raymond Rantanen, whose vehicle collided with a tractor-trailer which had jackknifed and was blocking all three lanes of traffic. Both plaintiffs sustained serious injuries, and they filed suit...

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