Court Opinion

ID: 9706147
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 01:32:49.20015+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:22:19.686030
License: Public Domain

Mr. Chief Justice Hershey, dissenting: To my mind, the Appellate Court correctly decided this case, and its opinion, reported in 4 Ill. App. 2d 284, should be affirmed. By definition, negligence is based on reasonable foreseeability; and one does not incur a liability unless he has caused an unreasonable risk. Jury verdicts must be judged accordingly. By approving this verdict, I believe the majority have either misapplied the law they profess to be controlling, or, in effect, have so diluted the law of negligence as to malee it mean whatever a jury determines in a particular case.