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  "name": "Joseph Siebert, Appellee, v. Chicago City Railway Company, Appellant",
  "name_abbreviation": "Siebert v. Chicago City Railway Co.",
  "decision_date": "1914-03-30",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 18,918",
  "first_page": "519",
  "last_page": "520",
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    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
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    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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    "parties": [
      "Joseph Siebert, Appellee, v. Chicago City Railway Company, Appellant."
    ],
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        "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice Baker\ndelivered the opinion of the court.",
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    "attorneys": [
      "James G. Condon and Watson J. Ferry, for appellant; Leonard A. Busby, of counsel.",
      "Edward J. Green, for appellee."
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    "head_matter": "Joseph Siebert, Appellee, v. Chicago City Railway Company, Appellant.\nGen. No. 18,918.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAppeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Pato. McWilliams, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in this court at the October term, 1912.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed March 30, 1914.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Joseph Siebert against CMcago City Railway Company to recover damages for personal injuries due to the premature starting of defendant\u2019s car as plaintiff was in the act of alighting. From a judgment for plaintiff for one thousand five hundred dollars, defendant appeals.\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Carriers, \u00a7 476 \u2014sufficiency of evidence to sustain verdict for passenger injured in alighting. Evidence held sufficient to show that plaintiff was thrown from defendant\u2019s car as the result of its being started as he was in the act of alighting, and that in so starting the car the motorman was guilty of negligence and plaintiff was free from contributory negligence.\n2. Carriers, \u00a7 452 \u2014sufficiency of declaration to charge premature starting of car. In an action by a passenger for personal injuries, an allegation that while plaintiff was alighting from the car the defendant, in response to the gong sounded as a signal for the car to be started, \u201churriedly, quickly and suddenly started said car,\u201d and thereby plaintiff was thrown.from the car, is sufficient to cover the premature starting of the car without a jerk as plaintiff was in the act of alighting.\n3. Appeal and error, \u00a7 1542 \u2014when instruction submitting improper element of damage harmless. In an action by a passenger for personal injuries where the declaration contained no averment of mental suffering and no proof thereof was introduced and instruction that plaintiff might recover for \u201chis suffering in mind\u201d is improper, but was held not to have been prejudicial.\nJames G. Condon and Watson J. Ferry, for appellant; Leonard A. Busby, of counsel.\nEdward J. Green, for appellee.\nSre Illinois Notes Digest, Veis. XI to XV, same topic and Section number."
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