Shannon v. Nightingale

In the evening of October 10, 1923, Mearl Shannon, a student in the Watseka high school, was going to his home in Woodland in a Ford touring car when a collision occurred between the car and a Garford truck engaged in the business of hauling oil and gasoline and driven by Dale Pratt. Shannon received severe injuries, and by his father, as his guardian, brought suit against William R. Nightingale and John P. Pallissard, who conducted an oil business at Watseka as partners, under the firm name of Eastern Illinois Oil Company. The defendants pleaded the general issue and special pleas denying…