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· 10/1/1976

French v. City of Springfield

Citations

  • 357 N.E.2d 438
  • 65 Ill. 2d 74
  • 2 Ill. Dec. 271
  • 1976 Ill. LEXIS 409

How courts have described this case

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  • finding that city ordinance which required a permit to be issued before barricades could be stationed on the street was a public safety measure
  • “licensing statutes do not set forth specific standards of care and the fact that a driver has not submitted to the State for testing of his driving skills is not evidence that he was driving negligently when involved in an accident”
  • city was prejudiced by improper admission of motion picture, which depicted area where accident occurred and preconditioned the minds of the jurors to accept the plaintiff’s theory of the case
  • city was prejudiced by improper admission of motion -8- picture, which depicted area where accident occurred and preconditioned the minds of the jurors to accept the plaintiff’s theory of the case

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Judges: Kluczynski

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