WELSH v. PRITCHETT

Gen. No. 10,433.

38 Ill. App.2d 478 (1963)

187 N.E.2d 335

Dorothy L. Welsh, Administrator de Bonis Non with the Will Annexed of Edward A. Welsh, Jr., Deceased, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Joseph H. Pritchett, Individually and d/b/a Pritchett Funeral Home, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Third District.

January 14, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gillespie, Burke & Gillespie, of Springfield (Louis F. Gillespie and George B. Gillespie, of counsel), for appellant.

Roberts & Kepner, of Springfield, for appellee.


REYNOLDS, P.J.

This is a wrongful death action arising out of a collision between an automobile driven by Edward A. Welsh, Jr. and an ambulance owned and driven by Joseph H. Pritchett, on U.S. Route 36, just east of Illiopolis, Illinois. The highway is a concrete two-lane highway, approximately twenty-two feet wide, running generally east and west. The highway at the point of collision was level and straight for approximately one-half mile in each direction. The time...

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