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KRESIN v. SEARS, ROEBUCK AND CO.

No. 1-99-3183.

736 N.E.2d 171 (2000)

316 Ill. App.3d 433

249 Ill.Dec. 329

Rosa KRESIN, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. SEARS, ROEBUCK AND COMPANY, a New York Corporation, and Alfredo E. Jijon, Defendants-Appellants.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Fifth Division.

September 1, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arnstein & Lehr (Richard C. Gering and Deborah H. Shefrin, of counsel) and Mayer, Brown & Platt (James C. Schroeder and Melanie L. Oxhorn, of counsel), Chicago, for Appellant.

Thompson, Lamont, Flaherty & Mazur, P.C., Aurora (Charles F. Thompson, Jr. and John M. Lamont, of counsel) and David A. Novoselsky & Assoc., Chicago (David A. Novoselsky, of counsel), for Appellee.

Presiding Justice QUINN delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiff, Rosa Kresin (Kresin), brought suit against defendants Sears Roebuck and Company (Sears) and Alfredo Jijon (Jijon) (collectively defendants) for injuries she sustained when Jijon, a Sears employee, struck her as he backed a van out of a Sears Automotive Center (Auto Center) in St. Charles, Illinois. A jury returned a verdict in Kresin's favor in the amount of $16.5 million, which was reduced to...

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