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· 5/21/1998

Nowak v. Coghill

Citations

  • 695 N.E.2d 532
  • 296 Ill. App. 3d 886
  • 231 Ill. Dec. 15
  • 1998 Ill. App. LEXIS 325

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • defining circumstantial evidence as proof of facts from which other connected facts may be inferred, “according to the common experience of mankind”
  • defining circumstantial evidence as proof of facts from which other connected facts may be inferred, \according to the common experience of mankind\
  • tow truck driver failed to establish homeowner’s duty to shovel snow on driveway
  • tow truck driver failed to establish homeowner’s duty to shovel snow on driveway
  • tow truck driver failed to establish homeowner’s duty to shovel snow on driveway
  • “circumstantial evidence is sufficient to establish proximate cause *** as long as the inference in question may reasonably be drawn from the evidence” and “the mere possibility of a causal connection is insufficient to raise the requisite inference of fact”

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Judges: Doyle

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