Rumpf v. Callo

Ewald Rumpf was injured in an intersectional collision between a Ford automobile in which he was riding and a motortruck driven by defendant Cal-lo and claimed by plaintiff to have been at the time engaged in the business of the other defendant, Jahncke Service, Inc.

The accident occurred on December 5, 1929, near the end of a protracted strike of street railway employees, and the Ford, on the rear seat of which plaintiff was riding, was operating at the time as a so-called “jitney,” that is to say, it was being driven by its owner for the purpose of carrying passengers for hire. It was…