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- Title: Lee v. Grand Trunk Western R.R. Co.
- Author : Illinois Appellate Court First District (3Rd Division) Judgment Affirmed
- Release Date : January 30, 1986
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 79 KB
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Rehearing denied June 4, 1986. Plaintiffs, Eyvette Lee and four minor children, brought this action against defendants Grand Trunk Western Railroad and Eulice Davis, its engineer, seeking to recover for injuries sustained in a collision with a train. Plaintiffs were passengers in an automobile owned by Lee and operated by John Flennoy which was struck by a Grand Trunk train operated by Davis. A jury returned a verdict in favor of all plaintiffs, and awarded damages totaling $2,617,475. The trial court denied defendants' post-trial motions and entered judgments on the verdicts. Defendants appeal. Flennoy had been a plaintiff in this action, but prior to trial his suit was voluntarily dismissed.