Gudgel v. St. Louis Fire and Marine Ins. Co.

The facts of this case arose out of a motor vehicle accident which occurred on June 30, 1963, at Danville, Illinois. The plaintiff-appellant, John T. Gudgel, a citizen of Indiana, was driving a car which collided with a truck-tractor driven by one Bud Freischlag, a citizen of lUinois. Gudgel instituted a negligence action to recover for injuries he sustained naming as defendants: Freischlag; Southern Shippers, Inc., a Mississippi corporation and common carrier which had leased the tractor for a period of one year on November 8, 1962; Wally Fondaw, a Mississippi citizen who is the President of…