Sugru v. Highland Park Yellow Cab Co.

Mr. Presiding Justice Jones

delivered the opinion of the court.

Appellant is engaged in the taxicab business' at Highland Park in Lake county. On the evening of October 18, 1925, a call came to the company’s office for a taxicab to be sent to the residence of a Mr. Hoopes. The chauffeur picked up three passengers at that address and drove south on the Green Bay Road toward Chicago. It was a dark night. It bad "been raining and the moon and stars were obscured. About a half mile south of the Lake county line, at a place where the road goes through a forest preserve, the lights on the taxicab…