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  "name": "Joseph W. Johnson, Appellee, v. Danville, Urbana and Champaign Railway Company, Appellant",
  "name_abbreviation": "Johnson v. Danville, Urbana & Champaign Railway Co.",
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    "parties": [
      "Joseph W. Johnson, Appellee, v. Danville, Urbana and Champaign Railway Company, Appellant."
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        "text": "Mr. Justice Thompson\ndelivered the opinion of the court.",
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    "attorneys": [
      "Charles Troup, for appellant; George W. Burton, of counsel.",
      "John J. Bea, Walter C. Bindley and F. T. Carbon, for appellee."
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    "head_matter": "Joseph W. Johnson, Appellee, v. Danville, Urbana and Champaign Railway Company, Appellant.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAppeal from the Circuit Court of Vermilion county; the Hon. E. R. E. Kimbbough, 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 Joseph W. Johnson against the Danville, Urbana and Champaign Railway Company to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff caused by being struck by a telephone pole which the employes of defendant were lowering by means of ropes when plaintiff was driving along a public highway. From a judgment in favor of plaintiff for $2,500, defendant appeals.\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Damages, \u00a7 162 \u2014allegations sufficient to admit of proof of damages resulting from inability to worlc. The rule in this State is that in order to recover compensation for inability to work at plaintiff\u2019s ordinary and usual employment or business, all that is necessary in the declaration is the general averment of such inability caused by the injury and consequent loss and damage, and that proof of his particular employment or business and of his ordinary wages and earnings therein is admissible in evidence under such general averment.\n2. Damages, \u00a7 174 \u2014when testimony as to earning capacity inadmissible. In an action for personal injuries permitting plaintiff, over objection, to testify as to what he could earn instead of what he did earn in his business, held error.\n3. Damages, \u00a7 213 \u2014when instruction for damages for personal injuries erroneous. In an action for personal injuries, an instruction that if the jury believe from the evidence that plaintiff \u201cwas injured in his ability to labor and attend to his affairs and generally pursue the course of life he might otherwise have done as well since as before the injury\u201d and that such injuries were inflicted through the negligence of defendant, \u201cthen the jury may assess such damages as will compensate the plaintiff for all the loss he may have sustained that is a necessary result of such injuries, if the evidence shows he sustained any loss as a result of such injuries,\u201d held erroneous as not confining the jury in their assessment of damages to the evidence on the question of damages.\n4. Evidence, \u00a7 442 \u2014when opinion of physician based on testimony in the case improper. In an action for personal injuries where the manner in which plaintiff was injured was not disputed, permitting physicians to testify as to whether the circumstances of the accident would have caused the injury, basing their opinion upon the testimony of plaintiff as to how he had been injured, held improper.\nCharles Troup, for appellant; George W. Burton, of counsel.\nJohn J. Bea, Walter C. Bindley and F. T. Carbon, for appellee.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, same topic and section number."
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