Legal Opinion
Francis v. Humphrey
District Court, E.D. Illinois
Decided November 2, 1938No. 3139PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WHAM, District Judge.
The case is now before the court upon defendant’s motion to dismiss for insufficiency each count of plaintiff’s complaint under which she seeks to recover for personal injuries received by her in a collision which occurred on an Illinois highway between the defendant’s automobile while being driven by defendant and an automobile owned and driven by plaintiff’s sister while plaintiff was riding in the latter as a guest of the sister. The complaint, filed on May 28, 1938, consists of five separate counts.
While both the complaint and the motion to dismiss were filed prior to…
2Cases cited26 opinions
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3Cited by9 opinions
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