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  "name": "Ole Johnson, Appellant, v. Gail C. Downing, Appellee",
  "name_abbreviation": "Johnson v. Downing",
  "decision_date": "1913-08-02",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 5,778",
  "first_page": "536",
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    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
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    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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    "parties": [
      "Ole Johnson, Appellant, v. Gail C. Downing, Appellee."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice Whitney\ndelivered the opinion of the court.",
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    "attorneys": [
      "F. A. Oakley, for appellant.",
      "William L. Pierce, for appellee."
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    "head_matter": "Ole Johnson, Appellant, v. Gail C. Downing, Appellee.\nGen. No. 5,778.\n(Not to he reported in full.)\nAppeal from the Circuit Court of Boone county; the Hon. Charles H. Donnelly, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the April term, 1913.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed August 2, 1913.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Ole Johnson against Gail C. Downing to recover damages for the shooting of a dog. From a judgment for defendant, plaintiff appeals.\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Animals, \u00a7 47 \u2014what are questions of fact. In an action for damages for shooting a dog, held that the question whether defendant was justified in shooting was for the jury.\n2. Appeal and ebbob, \u00a7 1465*\u2014when admission of evidence is harmless. The admission of evidence of the general vicious character of a dog cannot he complained of where the answers of witnesses to such questions, after objections were overruled, were not responsive, and where such evidence was given by other witnesses without objection.\n3. Animals, \u00a7 48*\u2014when instructions are improper: Instructions ignoring evidence as to attacks of a dog on different persons and that the owner of such dog knew of the attacks, instructions leaving it to the jury to determine what was a legal reason for killing a dog and instructions stating that a defendant was liable if he killed a dog without any legal reason for so doing, held properly refused.\nF. A. Oakley, for appellant.\nWilliam L. Pierce, for appellee.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XIV, same topic and section number."
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