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Ritholz v. Yellow Cab Company

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District
Jul 2, 1943
319 Ill. App. 115 (Ill. App. Ct. 1943)

Opinion

Gen. No. 42,437. (Abstract of Decision.)

Opinion filed July 2, 1943

AUTOMOBILES AND MOTOR VEHICLES, § 117.3sudden stopping, sufficiency of evidence to show negligence. In action for injuries to taxicab passenger against driver of cab, the cab company, and driver of another car with which the cab collided, held that it was error to direct a verdict for the driver of the other car, on plaintiff's testimony, where it appeared therefrom that the other car was being driven along city street at 40 miles per hour and came to a quick stop ahead of the cab without making any signal and while traffic light ahead was still green; and further held that award of $200 damages against cab company and driver, for serious injuries sustained by plaintiff, was inadequate.

See Callaghan's Illinois Digest, same topic and section number.

Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. WILLIAM J. LINDSAY, Judge, presiding.

Reversed and remanded. Heard in the first division, first district, this court at the October term, 1942.

Julius S. Neale, for appellant.

Jesmer Jesmer and Edwin A. Halligan, for certain appellees;

Edwin A. Halligan and Samuel M. Lanoff, of counsel.

Rawlins Wright, for certain other appellee;

Fay Warren Johnson, of counsel.


"Not to be published in full." Opinion filed July 2, 1943.


Summaries of

Ritholz v. Yellow Cab Company

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District
Jul 2, 1943
319 Ill. App. 115 (Ill. App. Ct. 1943)
Case details for

Ritholz v. Yellow Cab Company

Case Details

Full title:Benjamin D. Ritholz, Appellant, v. Yellow Cab Company et al., Appellees

Court:Appellate Court of Illinois, First District

Date published: Jul 2, 1943

Citations

319 Ill. App. 115 (Ill. App. Ct. 1943)
48 N.E.2d 802

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