Williams v. Yellow Cab Co.

JUDGE NIEMEYER

delivered the opinion of the court.

Defendants appeal from a judgment for $16,000 in a personal injury action arising out of a collision of a taxicab owned by defendant Yellow Cab .Company and operated in its behalf by defendant Chester Commack in an easterly direction in or near the eastbound streetcar track in the north half of West Cermak Road (22nd street) in Chicago, with plaintiff, a pedestrian crossing the street from south to north at a point not within a cross-walk as defined by statute (Ill. Rev. Stats. 1955, chap. 95½, par. 172) approximately 65 feet east of State…