HOPKINS v. YELLOW CAB CO.

Docket No. 19082.

114 Cal.App.2d 394 (1952)

250 P.2d 330

HELEN LORENE HOPKINS, a Minor, etc., Respondent, v. YELLOW CAB COMPANY (a Corporation) et al., Appellants.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Two.

November 26, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph A. Ball for Appellants.

Russell H. Pray and William C. Price for Respondent.


MOORE, P.J.

Appeal from a judgment on a single question of law: did defendants in transporting plaintiff and other school children in a taxicab, commonly used as a common carrier, owe plaintiff the duty of exercising the highest degree of care for her safety or merely ordinary care?

The Long Beach Unified School District had in attendance at its schools a number of physically and mentally handicapped children. It contracted with the Yellow Cab Company of Long...

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