Dean v. Ketter

Appellee, Melville C. Dean, recovered a judgment in the circuit court of Lake county, for $332.40 against Frank Ketter, appellant, on account of an accident by which a taxicab owned by appellant and driven by Clarence Davis, ran into the rear end of appellee’s car while it was parked at night on a street in Highland Park. The suit came to the circuit court by an appeal from a justice of the peace, and the trial on the appeal was by the court without a jury. Clarence Davis was not made a party defendant to the action.

The testimony shows that appellant owned the taxicab, on which appeared the…