Cloyes v. Plaatje

Plaintiff brought suit against Rudolph Plaatje and Henry Plaatje to recover the cost of repairing plaintiff’s automobile, which was damaged as a result of a collision with the defendant Henry Plaatje’s automobile at a street intersection in Chicago. The case was tried before the court and at the close of all the evidence it was dismissed as to the defendant Rudolph Plaatje, and there was a finding and judgment in plaintiff’s favor against Henry Plaatje for $422.

The record discloses that plaintiff between four and five o’clock in the afternoon of September 24, was driving his coupé automobile…