IL · jury_instructions
Ill. Pattern Jury Instr. (Civil) 600.06
Burden of Proof --Apportionment of Respon sibility--Third-Party Complaint Trie d
and Submitted Concurrently or Consecutively to the Same Jury
As to the cla im of
following propositions:
against , has the burden of proving each of the
First, that acted or failed to act in one of the ways claimed in these instructions, and
that in so acting, or failing to act, was negligent;
Second, that the neg ligence of
[damages].
was a prox imate cause of 's [injuries] [and]
If you find from your consideration of a ll the evidence that both of these propositions
have been proved, then your verdict should be for
in [any] [the] apportionment of damages.
and against , a nd you should include
If, on the other hand, you find from your consideration of all the evidence that either one
or both of these propositions has not been proved, then your verdict should be for and you
will have no occasion to consider the apportionment of damages against .
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- illinoiscourts.gov
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- 2026-08-20
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- 2026-08-19
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