{
  "id": 4868089,
  "name": "C. O. Reynolds v. J. J. Phillips",
  "name_abbreviation": "Reynolds v. Phillips",
  "decision_date": "1883-10-10",
  "docket_number": "",
  "first_page": "557",
  "last_page": "559",
  "citations": [
    {
      "type": "official",
      "cite": "13 Ill. App. 557"
    }
  ],
  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
  },
  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
  },
  "cites_to": [
    {
      "cite": "60 Ill. 211",
      "category": "reporters:state",
      "reporter": "Ill.",
      "case_ids": [
        8500367
      ],
      "opinion_index": -1,
      "case_paths": [
        "/ill/60/0211-01"
      ]
    },
    {
      "cite": "32 Ill. 485",
      "category": "reporters:state",
      "reporter": "Ill.",
      "case_ids": [
        2454145
      ],
      "opinion_index": -1,
      "case_paths": [
        "/ill/32/0485-01"
      ]
    },
    {
      "cite": "23 Ill. 349",
      "category": "reporters:state",
      "reporter": "Ill.",
      "case_ids": [
        5804426
      ],
      "opinion_index": -1,
      "case_paths": [
        "/ill/23/0349-01"
      ]
    },
    {
      "cite": "95 Ill. 383",
      "category": "reporters:state",
      "reporter": "Ill.",
      "case_ids": [
        2722983
      ],
      "opinion_index": -1,
      "case_paths": [
        "/ill/95/0383-01"
      ]
    },
    {
      "cite": "77 Ill. 25",
      "category": "reporters:state",
      "reporter": "Ill.",
      "case_ids": [
        821731
      ],
      "opinion_index": -1,
      "case_paths": [
        "/ill/77/0025-01"
      ]
    },
    {
      "cite": "66 Ill. 309",
      "category": "reporters:state",
      "reporter": "Ill.",
      "case_ids": [
        2624697
      ],
      "opinion_index": -1,
      "case_paths": [
        "/ill/66/0309-01"
      ]
    },
    {
      "cite": "10 Johns. 365",
      "category": "reporters:state",
      "reporter": "Johns.",
      "case_ids": [
        2135931,
        2135942
      ],
      "opinion_index": 0,
      "case_paths": [
        "/johns/10/0369-02",
        "/johns/10/0369-01"
      ]
    },
    {
      "cite": "66 Ill. 309",
      "category": "reporters:state",
      "reporter": "Ill.",
      "case_ids": [
        2624697
      ],
      "opinion_index": 0,
      "case_paths": [
        "/ill/66/0309-01"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "analysis": {
    "cardinality": 255,
    "char_count": 3588,
    "ocr_confidence": 0.527,
    "pagerank": {
      "raw": 4.3004890917364487e-08,
      "percentile": 0.2711414835382294
    },
    "sha256": "6732ae64eb795344ea2190d6cb556e5f7342eba66b888841fd9b8c3375d2d2de",
    "simhash": "1:f7adc83ad8054fbe",
    "word_count": 623
  },
  "last_updated": "2023-07-14T17:57:34.030277+00:00",
  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
  },
  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "C. O. Reynolds v. J. J. Phillips."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Baker, J.\nThis was trespass against appellant for billing appellee\u2019s dog. The judgment was for appellee for damages and costs.\nThere was evidence to the effect that appellant at the time of the killing was walking on the public street, and the dog dashed at him, barking and snapping; and that appellant, from his appearance and actions, thought the dog intended to bite him. The testimony was conflicting as to whether the dog was dangerous and accustomed to attack persons or otherwise. The court instructed the jury: \u201cThat an individual has no right to kill the dog of another unless the dog is caught wounding or chasing sheep, or has recently been bitten by another dog which is mad or supposed to be so; or when the dog is ferocious and attacks a person. That unless you find from the evidence the dog in question -was vicious and accustomed to attack persons, and that defendant killed him in self-defense, yon should find for the plaintiff.\u201d We may eliminate from this instruction what is said therein with .reference to sheep and mad dogs, as these matters have notli.ing to do with the case in hand. It is evident the instruction \u00a1imposes upon appellant too great a burden of proof. If the Jdog wdthout any provocation assailed appellant upon the public highway and was killed by him in self-defense, then the act of killing was justifiable although the dog may not theretofore have been regarded as ferocious, and may not have been accustomed to attack persons. Credit v. Brown, 10 Johns. 365.\nA man is not bound under such circumstances to stop and investigate as to the antecedent habits of the dog.\nSeveral other instructions given for appellee are also objectionable; they are argumentative, and direct the special attention of the jury to some of the particular circumstances in proof, thereby giving to such circumstances undue prominence.\nIt was also error to exclude from the jury evidence offered by appellant of bad habits of the dog other than those involved in the plea of justification. The proffered testimony was admissible, not in bar of the action but in mitigation of damages to be considered by the jury in assessing the value of the dog. Spray v. Ammerman, 66 Ill. 309.\nThe judgment is reversed and cause remanded.\nReversed and remanded.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Baker, J."
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Mr. H. EL Cheslev and Mr. D. C. JIagle, for appellant;",
      "Mr. P. GL Cockrell, for appellee;"
    ],
    "corrections": "",
    "head_matter": "C. O. Reynolds v. J. J. Phillips.\n1. Trespass for killing dog.\u2014Where a dog without any provocation assails a man upon the public highway, and is killed by the man in self-defense, the act of killing is justifiable, although theretofore.the dog may not have been regarded as ferocious, and may not have been accustomed to attack persons.\n2. Evidence.\u2014The exclusion from the jury of the evidence offered by appellant, of the had habits of the dog, other than those involved in the plea of justification, was error. Such testimony was admissible, not in bar of the action, but in mitigation of the damages to he considered by the jury in assessing the value of the dog.-\n3. Instructions.\u2014Instructions which are argumentative are improper.\nAppeal from the Circuit Court of Clay county; the Hon. William O. J ones, Judge, presiding.\nOpinion filed October 10, 1883.\nMr. H. EL Cheslev and Mr. D. C. JIagle, for appellant;\nthat it was error to exclude evidence of the bad habits of the dog, cited Spray v. Ammerman, 66 Ill. 309.\nAs to instructions: Roach v. The People, 77 Ill. 25; Steinmeyer v. The People, 95 Ill. 383.\nIt was error not to set aside the verdict and grant a new trial: Crabtree v. Hagenbaugh, 23 Ill. 349; Martin v. Morelock, 32 Ill. 485.\nMr. P. GL Cockrell, for appellee;\ncited Brent v. Kimball, 60 Ill. 211."
  },
  "file_name": "0557-01",
  "first_page_order": 561,
  "last_page_order": 563
}