{
  "id": 2460460,
  "name": "Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Company v. Patrick Maguire",
  "name_abbreviation": "Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Maguire",
  "decision_date": "1907-09-13",
  "docket_number": "",
  "first_page": "31",
  "last_page": "32",
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    {
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      "cite": "137 Ill. App. 31"
    }
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
  },
  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Company v. Patrick Maguire."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice Creighton\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\nThis was a suit in case, in the City Court of the city of Alton, by appellee against appellant, to recover damages for injury to appellee\u2019s team of horses, sustained by collision with appellant\u2019s engine, while appellee\u2019s team was being driven across a public street. Trial by jury. Verdict and judgment in favor pf appellee for $100.\nThe evidence was directly contradictory and conflicting as to the questions of due care and diligence on the part of the driver of appellee\u2019s team, and as to negligence on the part of the servants of appellant in charge of its engine.\nDuring the progress of the trial the court permitted appellee to testify in detail to a conversation with appellant\u2019s claim agent and to state propositions made pro and con in an attempt to\u2019 settle, and to speak of certain writings that passed between the claim agent and appellee with respect to an attempted settlement. All this was timely and specifically objected to, and the ruling of the court admitting it was duly excepted to.\nThe case was an exceedingly close one on its merits. The trial court erred in admitting the evidence above referred to, and it was of a kind highly prejudicial to appellant. It was well calculated to mislead and prejudice the jury, and we think probably did move them to return the verdict they did return. We find no other material error in this record.\nFor the error above noted and discussed, the judgment of the City Court of the city of Alton is reversed and the cause remanded.\nReversed and remanded.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Presiding Justice Creighton"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "John F. McGinnis and G. F. McNulty, for appellant.",
      "B. J. 0 \u2019Neill, for appellee."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Company v. Patrick Maguire.\n. Evidence\u2014offers of compromise incompetent. It is error to permit the introduction in evidence of attempts at compromise made by one of the parties to the litigation.\nAction in case. Appeal from the City Court of Alton; the Hon. James E. Dunnegan, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the February term, 1907.\nReversed and remanded.\nOpinion filed September 13, 1907.\nJohn F. McGinnis and G. F. McNulty, for appellant.\nB. J. 0 \u2019Neill, for appellee."
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  "file_name": "0031-01",
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