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O'CONNELL BY NELSON v. CITY OF CHICAGO

No. 1-94-0520.

674 N.E.2d 105 (1996)

285 Ill. App.3d 459

220 Ill.Dec. 834

Patricia O'CONNELL, a disabled person, by Terry NELSON, special administrator, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITY OF CHICAGO, Defendant-Appellee.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, First Division.

November 27, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Parrillo, Weiss & O'Halloran, Michael J. O'Halloran, Cliffor Panek, Keely Truax, of counsel, Chicago, for plaintiff-appellant.

Susan S. Sher, Corporation Counsel of City of Chicago; Lawrence Rosenthal, Deputy Corp. Counsel; Benna Ruth Solomon, Chief Asst. Corp. Counsel; Julian N. Henriques, Jr., Asst. Corp. Counsel, of counsel, for defendant-appellee.

Justice WOLFSON delivered the opinion of the court:

The law of this State establishes the special interrogatory as guardian of the integrity of a general verdict in a civil jury trial. For that reason, our courts of review have drawn a fine but critical line between proper and improper argument when a lawyer urges jurors to answer a special interrogatory in a certain way.

In this case, the trial judge found plaintiff's lawyer crossed the line during his rebuttal...

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