Inherent in any penetrating inquiry concerning a legal problem we find of necessity a road which travels from the concrete to the abstract and from the particular to the general. It is the usual method of testing results obtained in the sciences. While it is a commonplace that law cannot be named a science and while it is more appropriately termed an art, it may be stated that the process of human reason has as important a role in the solution of legal problems as in biology, chemistry or any other field of human thought and endeavor. Since very few questions giving rise to legal discussion are simple, in a search for the correct answer it becomes necessary to test general laws which may agree, overlap or conflict, and, as in the sciences, the application of a tentative solution should be tested with actuality, both in its immediate and its ultimate bearing. In such a discussion it is of the essence to strip the issue to its fundamentals and to discard the outer garments of apparent expediency, no matter how attractive they may appear. The State of Illinois was the first jurisdiction wherein a court of last resort held that the activities of a motor club supplying legal services to its members was contrary to public policy. This decision, People ex rel. The Chicago Bar Association, Relator, v. Motorists' Association of Illinois,' was rendered on December 22, 1933. It was followed by similar decisions in other jurisdictions and by two other cases in Illinois, People ex rel. The Chicago Bar Association v. Automobile Club of Illinois,2 decided at the October term, 1934, an unreported decision, and People ex rel. The Chicago Bar Association v. Chicago Motor Club.3