· 9/29/1992
Darrough v. Glendale Heights Community Hospital
Citations
- 600 N.E.2d 1248
- 234 Ill. App. 3d 1055
- 175 Ill. Dec. 790
- 1992 Ill. App. LEXIS 1562
How courts have described this case
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- finding that, in a negligence claim, a plaintiff can establish proximate cause by establishing that the defendant had exclusive control of the instrumentality that caused plaintiffs injury and the unlikelihood of that injury absent negligence
- “That the acts and conduct of a defendant were reasonable does not destroy the inference of negligence, but will allow a jury to reject such an inference after weighing all the evidence.”
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Judges: Nickels
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