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  "id": 2858079,
  "name": "John H. O'Neil, Administrator, Plaintiff in Error, v. Illinois Central Railroad Company, Defendant in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "O'Neil v. Illinois Central Railroad",
  "decision_date": "1914-05-21",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 19,224",
  "first_page": "126",
  "last_page": "127",
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    "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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    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "John H. O\u2019Neil, Administrator, Plaintiff in Error, v. Illinois Central Railroad Company, Defendant in Error."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Gridley\ndelivered the opinion of the court.",
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        "author": "Mr. Justice Gridley"
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    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "E. W. Rice, for plaintiff in error.",
      "Calhoun, Lyford & Sheean, for defendant in error; John G. Drennan, of counsel."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "John H. O\u2019Neil, Administrator, Plaintiff in Error, v. Illinois Central Railroad Company, Defendant in Error.\nGen. No. 19,224.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nError to the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Theodore Brentano, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1913.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed May 21, 1914.\nRehearing denied June 3, 1914.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by John H. O\u2019Neil, administrator of the estate of Rocco Marrone, deceased, against Illinois Central Railroad Company to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by deceased resulting in his death. The deceased was employed by defendant to do general work of cleaning up in and about the yards and tracks of defendant, and while so engaged he was struck by a car which was being pushed by a switch engine. A judgment was entered in favor of defendant upon-the verdict of a jury finding defendant not guilty. To reverse the judgment, plaintiff brings error. .\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Master and servant, \u00a7 615 \u2014when ordinance relating to speed of railroad cars inadmissible. In an action against a railroad company to recover damages for the death of an employe who was run over by cars which were being pushed by a switch engine at a place in a city where the tracks were depressed below the level of a street at a street crossing, refusal to admit in evidence certain ordinances of the city limiting the rate of speed, held not error.\n2. Master and servant, \u00a7 795*\u2014when requested instruction properly refused as assuming negligence as a matter of law. In an action against a railroad company to recover for the death of a person employed by the company to do general work about a railroad station, a requested instruction offered by plaintiff which, in effect, told the jury that failure to blow the whistle after the persons in charge of the train had discovered deceased on the track in a position of peril was negligence as a matter of law, held properly refused.\nE. W. Rice, for plaintiff in error.\nCalhoun, Lyford & Sheean, for defendant in error; John G. Drennan, of counsel.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
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  "file_name": "0126-01",
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