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  "id": 5371906,
  "name": "Bertha Martukis by Eugene Martukis, Appellee, v. Ferdinand P. Keyt, Appellant",
  "name_abbreviation": "Martukis v. Keyt",
  "decision_date": "1914-04-15",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 5,854",
  "first_page": "279",
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    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
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    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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    "parties": [
      "Bertha Martukis by Eugene Martukis, Appellee, v. Ferdinand P. Keyt, Appellant."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Carnes\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Automobiles and gabages, \u00a7 3 \u2014when finding of jury as to contributory negligence controlling. In an action for injuries sustained by plaintiff by being struck by a taxicab owned by defendant while plaintiff was attempting to cross a street, a verdict for plaintiff held controlling on the question whether plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence, though it appeared from the record that the accident might have been caused by the combined negligence of the plaintiff and the driver of the car.\n2. Instructions, \u00a7 94 \u2014when instruction to disregard testimony of witness inaccurately worded. The giving of an instruction: \u201cThe court instructs the jury as a matter of law that if you believe from the evidence that any of the witnesses have wilfully testified falsely to any material fact in evidence then you will be entitled to entirely disregard any of the evidence of this witness in so far as his testimony is not corroborated by other competent evidence,\u201d held reversible error, in that the instruction uses the word \u201ccompetent\u201d instead of the word \u201ccredible\u201d or other words of like import.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice Carnes"
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    "attorneys": [
      "Charles W. Ferguson, for appellant.",
      "David D. Madden, for appellee."
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    "head_matter": "Bertha Martukis by Eugene Martukis, Appellee, v. Ferdinand P. Keyt, Appellant.\nGen. No. 5,854.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAppeal from the Circuit Court of Winnebago county; the Hon. Arthur H. Frost, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in this court at the October term, 1913.\nReversed and remanded.\nOpinion filed April 15, 1914.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Bertha Martukis by Eugene Martukis, as her next friend, against Ferdinand P. Keyt to recover for injuries sustained by plaintiff, a girl sixteen years old, by being struck by a taxicab owned by the defendant while she was endeavoring to cross a street after alighting from a street car. From a judgment entered on a verdict in favor of plaintiff, defendant appeals.\nCharles W. Ferguson, for appellant.\nDavid D. Madden, for appellee.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
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  "file_name": "0279-01",
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