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  "name": "Robert E. Burke, Plaintiff in Error, v. Wallace M. Waterman, Defendant in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "Burke v. Waterman",
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  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 19,028",
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    "name_long": "Illinois",
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    "parties": [
      "Robert E. Burke, Plaintiff in Error, v. Wallace M. Waterman, Defendant in Error."
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        "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice Fitch\ndelivered the opinion of the court.",
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        "author": "Mr. Presiding Justice Fitch"
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    "attorneys": [
      "John C. King and James D. Power, for plaintiff in error.",
      "Delbert A. Clithero, for defendant in error."
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    "head_matter": "Robert E. Burke, Plaintiff in Error, v. Wallace M. Waterman, Defendant in Error.\nGen. No. 19,028.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Negligence, \u00a7 95 \u2014\u201cdue care\u201d when applied to a child defined. The term \u201cdue care,\u201d when applied to a child, means that degree of care which a child of his age, intelligence, capacity, discretion and experience would naturally and ordinarily use in the same situation and under the same circumstances.\n2. Negligence, \u00a7 230*\u2014when instruction on due care of minor erroneous. In an action by a minor tor personal injuries sustained by being run over by defendant\u2019s automobile in a public street, the giving of an instruction telling the jury that in determining whether plaintiff was in the exercise of due care \u201cyou are not to consider the fact of his age,\u201d held reversible error.\nError to the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Charles M. Walker, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1913.\nReversed and remanded.\nOpinion filed July 2, 1914.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Robert E. Burke, a minor, against Wallace M. Waterman to recover for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff by being rtin over by defendant\u2019s automobile while plaintiff was upon a public street in Chicago. Upon a trial before a jury a verdict of not guilty was rendered, and from a judgment entered upon the verdict, plaintiff appeals.\nJohn C. King and James D. Power, for plaintiff in error.\nDelbert A. Clithero, for defendant in error.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
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