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  "id": 2854552,
  "name": "Janet Teal by John W. Teal, Appellee, v. St. Louis & Springfield Railway Company and St. Louis, Springfield & Peoria Railroad Company, Appellants",
  "name_abbreviation": "Teal v. St. Louis & Springfield Railway Co.",
  "decision_date": "1913-12-27",
  "docket_number": "",
  "first_page": "33",
  "last_page": "34",
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      "cite": "185 Ill. App. 33"
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    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
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  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
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    "parties": [
      "Janet Teal by John W. Teal, Appellee, v. St. Louis & Springfield Railway Company and St. Louis, Springfield & Peoria Railroad Company, Appellants."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Eldredge\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\n2. Carriers, \u00a7 384 \u2014when rule of nonliability for ordinary swaying of car inapplicable. The rule that a railroad company is not liable for injuries resulting from the swaying and lurching of a car, unless the swaying and lurching were unusual, is not applicable where the gravamen of the action is not laid as the swaying and lurching of the car.\n3. Carriers, \u00a7 486 \u2014when instruction allowing recovery for negligently starting car erroneous. In an action fot injuries caused by being thrown from platform of car by the starting thereof when plaintiff was unable to gain entrance to the car from the platform, an instruction allowing plaintiff to recover if the conductor \u201cnegligently caused the car to start forward\u201d without the limitation \u201cbefore she had reasonable opportunity to enter it,\u201d held erroneous; but the giving of same when considered together with other instructions given, held not to have misled the jury.",
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        "author": "Mr. Justice Eldredge"
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    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Rinaker & Rinaker, H. C. Dillon and Burton' & .Hamilton, for appellants.",
      "JQ. C. Knotts and Bell & Burton, for appellee."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Janet Teal by John W. Teal, Appellee, v. St. Louis & Springfield Railway Company and St. Louis, Springfield & Peoria Railroad Company, Appellants.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Carriers, \u00a7 367 \u2014when liable for failure to provide entrance from, the car platform into the car. In an action for injuries sustained by a passenger alleged to have been caused by being thrown from the rear platform of an interurban car by the swaying and lurching thereof when she was unable to gain entrance to the car because the doors were locked, or so tightly closed that she was unable to open them, and there was no employe of the defendants there to assist her, a verdict for plaintiff held sustained by the evidence.\nAppeal from the Circuit Court of Macoupin county; the Hon. Robert B. Shirley, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in this court at the October term, 1913.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed December 27, 1913.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Janet Teal, by John W. Teal, her guardian, against the St. Louis & Springfield Railway Company and St. Louis, Spring-field & Peoria Railroad Company to recover for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff from falling from an interurban car operated by defendants. Prom a judgment in favor of plaintiff for one thousand dollars, defendants appeal.\nRinaker & Rinaker, H. C. Dillon and Burton' & .Hamilton, for appellants.\nJQ. C. Knotts and Bell & Burton, for appellee.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, same topic and section number."
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  "file_name": "0033-01",
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  "last_page_order": 60
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