39 Ill. App. 2d 191 - Olsen v. Pigott’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently September 1987
19 state decisions
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““Defendants would require that circumstantial evidence, in the absence of direct evidence to establish a fact, not only creates an inference as to the fact sought to be shown, but also excludes all other inferences. This has never been required. Courts have held that the name of a mercantile establishment on the side of a truck leads to the presumption that the truck was owned, operated and managed by such establishment. Bosco v. Boston Store of Chicago, 229 Ill. App. 564 . Yet it is obvious that a name on the side of a truck does not exclude the possibility that the truck was not owned, operated and managed by the person or organization named on the side of the truck. Similarly, proof of ownership of a vehicle has been held to be proof of a circumstance to show prima facie that the owner was the operator of the vehicle at the time of a collision. Again, this may be rebutted, but it is a sufficient showing, absent other evidence. Howard v. Amerson, 236 Ill. App. 587 . In Jacobs v. Illinois Nat. Bank and Trust Co., 345 Ill. App. 30 , 102 N.E.2d 182 , one issue was whether Yardley was driving the car involved in a crash. This court said, ‘A greater or less probability, leading on the whole to a satisfactory conclusion, is all that is required to establish controverted facts by circumstantial evidence. (Ohio Bldg. Safety Vault Co. v. Industrial Board, 277 Ill. 96, 102, 103 , 115 N.E. 149 ; Lindroth v. Walgreen Co., 407 Ill. 121, 135 , 94 N.E.2d 847 .) The Lindroth case quotes fr”
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