KREIDER TRUCK SERVICE, INC. v. AUGUSTINE

No. 51403.

76 Ill.2d 535 (1979)

394 N.E.2d 1179

KREIDER TRUCK SERVICE, INC., Appellee, v. HENRY AUGUSTINE et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed September 19, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wiseman, Shaikewitz, McGivern & Wahl, of Alton, Dennis McGrady, of Gillespie, Charles Wesley, of Waynesville, and Robert Droste, of Mt. Olive, for appellants.

Hoagland, Maucker, Bernard & Almeter, of Alton (Robert B. Maucker and Al J. Pranaitis, of counsel), for appellee.


Judgments reversed.

MR. JUSTICE RYAN delivered the opinion of the court:

This case involves the question of the liability of a certificated interstate motor carrier who had leased trucks from an owner for use in interstate hauling. The accident, out of which the claims arose, occurred while the trucks were being used by the owner-lessor for its own use in purely intrastate hauling.

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