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  "id": 2849470,
  "name": "Bernard Sackarnd, Appellee, v. Chicago Railways Company, Appellant",
  "name_abbreviation": "Sackarnd v. Chicago Railways Co.",
  "decision_date": "1914-03-26",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 18,984",
  "first_page": "457",
  "last_page": "458",
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    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
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    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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    "parties": [
      "Bernard Sackarnd, Appellee, v. Chicago Railways Company, Appellant."
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      {
        "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice Fitch\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\nAbstract of the Decision.\nStreet railroads, \u00a7 100 -\u2014when driver of vehicle strode By overhang of car on curve guilty of contributory negligence. In an action for personal injuries sustained by the driver of a vehicle struck by the overhang of a car rounding a curve, the evidence showed that on the curve in question the clearance between cars using the two tracks varied from six inches upward, depending upon the position of the cars on the curve; that prior to the accident plaintiff was driving in the tracks on the proper side of the street; that to have been struck by the overhang of the car he must have turned on to the space between the two sets of tracks, as a car was approaching in plain view. Held plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence barring recovery.",
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        "author": "Mr. Presiding Justice Fitch"
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    "attorneys": [
      "Charles L. Mahony, William: H. Symmes and Alfred B. Davis, Jr., for appellant; John R. Guilliams and Frank L. Kriete, of counsel.",
      "Lynn & Batjmer, for appellee."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Bernard Sackarnd, Appellee, v. Chicago Railways Company, Appellant.\nGen. No. 18,984.\n(Not to he reported in full.)\nAppeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Richard S. Tuthill, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1912.\nReversed with finding of facts.\nOpinion filed March 26, 1914.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction \"by Bernard Sackarnd against Chicago Railways Company to recover for personal injuries inflicted on him as the result of the wagon which he was driving on defendant\u2019s tracks being struck by the overhang of a car on another track rounding a curve. From a judgment for plaintiff for one thousand dollars, defendant appeals.\nCharles L. Mahony, William: H. Symmes and Alfred B. Davis, Jr., for appellant; John R. Guilliams and Frank L. Kriete, of counsel.\nLynn & Batjmer, for appellee.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, same topic and section number."
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