Stoewsand v. Checker Taxi Co.

Jennie Stoewsand filed a complaint in the superior court of Cook county against Checker Taxi Company, a corporation, and the City of Chicago, a municipal corporation, to recover for injuries sustained when the taxicab in which she was a passenger struck what she alleged to be a hole in the Northwest Highway near Bryn Mawr avenue in Chicago, on January 27, 1941. The taxi company was charged with acts of negligence in the operation of the cab and the City was charged with neglecting to keep the highway in a reasonably safe condition, and with suffering a water main beneath the surface of the…