TURNER v. SCHAEFFER

Gen. No. 11,453.

30 Ill. App.2d 376 (1961)

174 N.E.2d 690

Muriel Turner, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Dean Schaeffer, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Second District, First Division.

Rehearing denied June 5, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peterson & Johnson, of Princeton, for appellant.

Andrews & Andrews, and D.J. McRae, of Kewanee, for appellee.


SMITH, P.J.

By this appeal we are asked, for the first time in this state, to articulate the elements making up willful and wanton misconduct in a situation where the driver goes to sleep at the wheel and injures a guest. The facts are important.

Both plaintiff and defendant are young people. They had been going together for about a year at the time of the accident sued on, which occurred shortly after midnight on Thanksgiving Day, 1958. Defendant, that evening...

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