Case ID: ill-app_195/html/0409-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

B. J. Grogan, Defendant in Error, v. Consumers Company, Plaintiff in Error.
    Gen. No. 21,163.
    (Not to be reported in full.)
    Error to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. John Courtney, Judge, presiding.
    Heard in this court at the March term, 1915.
    Affirmed.
    Opinion filed December 6, 1915.
    
      Abstract of the decision.
    Automobiles and garages, § 2
      
      —when evidence supports findings as to negligence. In an action to recover for injury to plaintiff’s automobile alleged to have been caused by negligence of the driver of defendant’s wagon, evidence held to sustain a finding that plaintiff was not guilty of contributory negligence and that defendant’s driver was negligent.
    Statement of the Case.
    Action by B. J. Grogan, plaintiff, against the Consumers Company, a corporation, defendant, in the Municipal Court of Chicago to recover damages caused to an automobile by the negligence of a servant of defendant while driving a wagon. Plaintiff was driving east on Jackson boulevard, and defendant’s wagon was going east on Loomis street. The tongue of the wagon struck the automobile and inflicted the damage complained of. To reverse a judgment for plaintiff of $96.25, defendant prosecutes this writ of error.
    McKinley & Hansen, for plaintiff in error.
    P. J. Tuohy, for defendant in error.
    
      
      See Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number.
    
   Mr. Justice Baker

delivered the opinion of the court.