Borries v. Z. Frank, Inc.

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• under the language of section 2—1108, then section 65 of the Civil Practice Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1965, ch. 110, par. 65), however, the court may have some discretion not to enter judgment in accordance with the special interrogatory
• no authority to enter judgment in accordance with general verdict
• no authority to enter judg­ment in accor­ dance with general verdict
• “a jury more clearly understands a particularized special interrogatory than a composite of all of the questions in a case, and therefore a special finding upon which a jury presumably has more intensively focused its attention should prevail over an inconsistent general verdict”
• under the language of section 2-1108, then section 65 of the Civil Practice Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1965, ch. 110, par. 65), howev­er, the court may have some discre­tion not to enter judgment in accor­dance with the special inter­rogato­ry

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