Hafemann v. Milwaukee Automobile Insurance

The plaintiff Hafemann was injured on April 6, 1946, at about 1:15 a.m. while riding as a guest in an auto mobile operated by the defendant and appellant, Jack Lancin. While driving along Kinnickinnic avenue, a public arterial highway, Lancin noticed that his gasoline supply was running low and to get gasoline he drove into the private driveway of a tavern about seventy-five feet east of the east edge of the said highway. Upon learning that there was no gasoline for sale, Lancin got into his car and turned on his lights and proceeded to back westward out of the driveway into the highway with…