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  "id": 2851792,
  "name": "Thomas B. Cochran, Appellee, v. City of Charleston, Appellant",
  "name_abbreviation": "Cochran v. City of Charleston",
  "decision_date": "1913-12-27",
  "docket_number": "",
  "first_page": "79",
  "last_page": "79",
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      "cite": "185 Ill. App. 79"
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  "court": {
    "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",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Thomas B. Cochran, Appellee, v. City of Charleston, Appellant."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Thompson\ndelivered the opinion of the court.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice Thompson"
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    "attorneys": [
      "John T. Kincade and Albert C. Anderson, for appellant.",
      "Stotsenburg & Weathers and H. A. Meal, for appellee."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Thomas B. Cochran, Appellee, v. City of Charleston, Appellant.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Municipal corporations, \u00a7 1100 \u2014when instructions as to duty of city to heep its streets in safe condition erroneous. In an action against a city for personal injuries resulting from stepping into a hole in a street, the declaration charging the city with a greater duty than the law requires, held that the instructions given were erroneous in that some of them stated a positive duty of the city to make its streets reasonably safe and others stated that it was its duty to use reasonable care to make its streets safe.\n2. Damages, \u00a7 115 \u2014when verdict for personal injuries excessive. A verdict for two thousand eight hundred dollars for personal injuries, held excessive, it not appearing that plaintiff suffered any serious injury and that he had no bones broken or serious bruises.\nAppeal from the Circuit Court of Coles county; the Hon. E. R. E. Kimbrough, Judge presiding.\nHeard in this court at the October term, 1913.\nReversed and remanded.\nOpinion filed December 27, 1913.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Thomas B. Cochran against the city of Charleston to recover for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff alleged to have been caused by the negligence of defendant in permitting a hole which was excavated between the sidewalk and curbing to remain unguarded. From a judgment in favor of plaintiff for two thousand eight hundred dollars, defendant appeals.\nJohn T. Kincade and Albert C. Anderson, for appellant.\nStotsenburg & Weathers and H. A. Meal, for appellee.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, 8am$ topic &iui section number."
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  "file_name": "0079-01",
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  "last_page_order": 105
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