Guffey v. Gale

Mr. Presiding Justice Wolfe

delivered the opinion of the court.

On November 29, 1944, about 6:45 o’clock in the morning, wartime, the plaintiff, Joseph Guffey, an employee of the County of Winnebago, was riding in a truck belonging to the county. He was on his way from Rockford, to work as a laborer in the county’s quarry located north of the Town of Durand. At that time, the truck was being driven on State Highway No. 70 past the farm of the defendant, Neil Gale, by Julius Lindroth who was also an employee of the county on his way to work in the quarry. Guffey was sitting in the front seat of…