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  "id": 2849104,
  "name": "Pennsylvania Company, Plaintiff in Error, v. The Dunham Towing & Wrecking Company sued as Great Lakes Towing Company, Defendant in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "Pennsylvania Co. v. Dunham Towing & Wrecking Co.",
  "decision_date": "1914-02-02",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 18,631",
  "first_page": "110",
  "last_page": "111",
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      "type": "official",
      "cite": "185 Ill. App. 110"
    }
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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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  "casebody": {
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    "parties": [
      "Pennsylvania Company, Plaintiff in Error, v. The Dunham Towing & Wrecking Company sued as Great Lakes Towing Company, Defendant in Error."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Me. Justice Beown\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\n2. Municipal Court of Chicago, \u00a7 28 \u2014when objection to oral instruction not preserved. Where a judge of the Municipal Court charges the jury orally and after the charge was given asked whether either counsel desired to have the jury further instructed and no response was made by counsel for either party nor any objection or exception of any kind taken to the instructions in the Municipal Court, a party cannot complain of the whole or any part of the charge in the Appellate Court.\n3. Instructions, \u00a7 162 \u2014when words in instructions not misleading. In an action against a Towing Company for damage to a pier alleged to have been caused by a vessel which was being towed by defendant\u2019s tugs, an oral charge was given to the jury that: \u201cIn the event that the proof shows that the accident occurred through the negligence alone of the defendant, then you will consider in your verdict the amount of the damages which have been proven * * * and should return your verdict in accordance with the truth.\u201d Held that the use of the word \"alone\u201d and the word \u201ctruth\u201d were not misleading.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Me. Justice Beown"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Loesch, Scofield & Loesch, for plaintiff in error.",
      "M. P. Sullivan and T. C. Robinson, for defendant in error."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Pennsylvania Company, Plaintiff in Error, v. The Dunham Towing & Wrecking Company sued as Great Lakes Towing Company, Defendant in Error.\nGen. No. 18,631.\n(Not to he reported in full.)\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Collision, \u00a7 11 \u2014when verdict for defendant sustained by the evidence. In an action against a Towing Company to recover damages to a protection pier alleged to have been caused by a vessel striking against the pier while being towed by tugs of defendant, a verdict in favor of defendant on conflicting evidence held sustained by the evidence.\nError to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Frederick L. Fake, Jr., Judge, presiding.\nHeard in this court at the October term, 1912.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed February 2, 1914.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Pennsylvania Company against the Dun-ham Towing and Wrecking Company, sued as Great Lakes Towing Company, to recover for damage done to plaintiff\u2019s protection pier in the Calumet River and alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant in the management of its tugs while towing a certain boat which struck said protection pier. To reverse a judgment of nil capiat and for cost against the plaintiff, plaintiff prosecutes a writ of error.\nLoesch, Scofield & Loesch, for plaintiff in error.\nM. P. Sullivan and T. C. Robinson, for defendant in error.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, VoIS. XI to XV, same topic and section number.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, same tonic and section number."
  },
  "file_name": "0110-01",
  "first_page_order": 136,
  "last_page_order": 137
}