Agran v. Checker Taxi Co.

This case comes here on appeal from an order of the circuit court of Cook County denying plaintiff’s motion to vacate its previous order dismissing the cause for want of prosecution. A constitutional question being raised, the cause is properly here for determination.

August 30, 1948, plaintiff, Abraham Agran, filed' a complaint at law against the defendant, Checker Taxi Company, a corporation. Plaintiff asked damages for personal injuries sustained by reason of the’ negligent, careless and improper operation of defendant’s taxicab on May 10, 1948, whereby plaintiff, a pedestrian, was struck…