Freeman v. Dixon

Mr. Presiding Justice Taylor

delivered the opinion of the court.

The plaintiff Freeman brought suit against the defendants Henry Dixon and Lee H. Harlan, claiming that Dixon, while acting as the chauffeur for the defendant Harlan, and while driving an automobile of Harlan’s on Oakwood Boulevard near its intersection with Vincennes Avenue, in Chicago, and “while the plaintiff was with all due care and diligence then crossing said streets” so carelessly and improperly drove and managed the automobile that by his negligence he ran into and struck her and seriously injured her. The defendant, Dixon…