Supreme Court of Illinois

In a personal injury action involving a suit seeking compensation for personal injuries and property damage and a counterclaim seeking to recover for property damage, order for a new trial is denied where jury was entitled to find that neither party had proved its case.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/06/2005
• Published 06/06/2007

Judges

• Justice GARMAN delivered the opinion of the court:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael Resis, of O'Hagan, Smith & Amundsen, L.L.C., Chicago, for appellant., Matthew D. Ports, of Pfaff & Gill, Ltd., Chicago, for amicus curiae Illinois Trial Lawyers Association.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert E. Tracy, of Kroll & Rubin, Ltd., Chicago, for appellee.