Court Opinion

ID: 8825544
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-11-26 15:46:32.485861+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:04:46.038607
License: Public Domain

Mb. Presiding Justice Eldredge delivered the opinion of the court. 2. Pleading, § 32*—what constitutes surplusage. Surplusage comprehends whatever may be stricken from the record without destroying the right of action, or the charge, on one hand, or the defense on the other. 3. Negligence, § 112*—when negligence of driver of public taxicab may not be imputed to passenger. The negligence of the chauffeur of a public taxicab, which collided with a street car, in operating his cab without a license, and in violating an ordinance in stopping his car to receive a passenger on the wrong side of the street, cannot be imputed to the passenger. 4. Street railroads, § 91*—when occupant of public taxicab not guilty of contributory negligence. Where an occupant of an inclosed public taxicab has no means of communication with the chauffeur and does not know of his intention to back upon street car tracks and thereby place her in danger of collision she cannot be deemed guilty of contributory negligence. 5. Street railroads, § 113*—when evidence incompetent as being too remote. In an action against a street railroad for damages for personal injuries sustained as the result of a collision between the taxicab in which plaintiff was riding and a' street car, evidence that the conductor was slightly intoxicated an hour and a half to two hours before the accident, held improperly admitted as being too remote where there was no evidence that he was in a like condition at the time of the accident.