Crowe Name Plate & Manufacturing Co. v. Dammerich

Mr. Presiding Justice Edwards

delivered the opinion of the court.

On April 24, 1930, C. F. McLaughlin engaged a taxi at the public square in Belleville, to take him to the Oakland Foundry Company, located at the junction of Florida avenue and A street. The cab was owned and driven by Ed Bien. It proceeded easterly along A street, which, west of its intersection with Florida avenue, is 30 feet wide from curb to curb, while east of the avenue its corresponding width is 24 feet. At the time in question, which was about 11 o’clock in the forenoon of a bright, sunshiny day, there were parked on the…