Bell v. Illinois Farm Supply Co.

Appellant, Illinois Farm Supply Company, a corporation, was the owner of a gasoline transport truck and appellant, Lyle E. Walley, was the driver thereof. On the night of March 4,1946, Walley was driving this truck which consisted of a tractor and two trailers with tanks containing 7800 gallons of gasoline. He left Peoria about six o’clock that evening, driving north on Route 88 intending to go to Princeton, Illinois. He reached a point approximately 26 miles north of Peoria about seven o’clock that evening and at that time.and place his truck stopped because the air compressor belt broke,…