{
  "id": 5320203,
  "name": "Catherine Goldring, Appellee, v. Chicago City Railway Company, Appellant",
  "name_abbreviation": "Goldring v. Chicago City Railway Co.",
  "decision_date": "1910-12-02",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 15,096",
  "first_page": "87",
  "last_page": "88",
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      "cite": "159 Ill. App. 87"
    }
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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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    "parties": [
      "Catherine Goldring, Appellee, v. Chicago City Railway Company, Appellant."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice Mack\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\nThis is an appeal from a judgment for $500 for injuries which plaintiff, a passenger on defendant\u2019s car, claims she sustained by reason of defendant\u2019s negligence in suddenly starting the car while she was in the act of alighting. The conflict in the evidence is as to whether the accident occurred before or after the car had come to a stop. Under proper instructions, the jury has determined this conflict in her favor. She is corroborated in her version by two witnesses while defendant\u2019s version that she stepped from the car while it was in motion and before it had stopped is supported by three witnesses.\nOn a careful consideration of the entire evidence we cannot hold that the jury were not justified in crediting the plaintiff\u2019s witnesses and in determining that she had sustained the burden of establishing her case by a preponderance of the evidence. '\nThere were no direct physical injuries produced by the fall but within a day thereafter plaintiff had a recurrence of exopthalmic goitre, which she had had in severe form a year before, but the effects of which had practically disappeared prior to the accident though she was not entirely normal. While defend- \u25a0 ant\u2019s expert witness testified that a fall could not produce such a recurrence, the jury were justified under the evidence in believing plaintiff\u2019s physician that the shock resulting from the fall could, in view of plaintiff\u2019s condition, be the cause of the recurrence -and in finding that it was the cause in this case.\nThe judgment will be affirmed.\nAffirmed.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Presiding Justice Mack"
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    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Benjamin F. Richolson and Ferdinand Goss, for appellant; John R. Harrington, of counsel.",
      "Edward R. Litzinger, for appellee."
    ],
    "corrections": "",
    "head_matter": "Catherine Goldring, Appellee, v. Chicago City Railway Company, Appellant.\nGen. No. 15,096.\nVerdicts\u2014when not disturbed as against the evidence. If the jury are justified in crediting the witnesses of the prevailing party and their evidence tends to sustain a correct legal theory of recovery, the verdict rendered will not be disturbed in the absence'of errors of law having intervened.\nAction in case for personal injuries. Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. George A. Dupuy, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in this court at the October term, 1908.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed December 2, 1910.\nBenjamin F. Richolson and Ferdinand Goss, for appellant; John R. Harrington, of counsel.\nEdward R. Litzinger, for appellee."
  },
  "file_name": "0087-01",
  "first_page_order": 105,
  "last_page_order": 106
}