Hopkins v. Yellow Cab Co.

Appeal from a judgment on a single question of law: did defendants in transporting plaintiff and other school children in a taxicab, commonly used as a common carrier, owe plaintiff the duty of exercising the highest degree of care for her safety or merely ordinary care?

The Long Beach Unified School District had in attendance at its schools a number of physically and mentally handicapped children. It contracted with the Yellow Cab Company of Long Beach to furnish an automobile and driver for the transportation of such children from their homes to school in the mornings, to their homes and…