Little v. Blue Goose Motor Coach Co.

Mr. Presiding Justice Barry

delivered the opinion of the court.

On November 1, 1925, Dr. Robert M. Little, while driving his Overland sedan at the intersection of Ridge Avenue and Twenty-seventh Street in East St. Louis, collided with a bus owned and operated by appellant. A few days later appellant sued Dr. Little before a justice of the peace, and recovered a judgment for the damages occasioned to its bus by the said collision. Defendant appealed to the county court,and the appeal was dismissed for want of prosecution. On December 1, 1925, Dr. Little sued appellant in the city court to…