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  "id": 2860797,
  "name": "Catherine Cronin, Defendant in Error, v. Court of Honor, Plaintiff in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "Cronin v. Court of Honor",
  "decision_date": "1914-07-14",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 19,692",
  "first_page": "480",
  "last_page": "481",
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      "cite": "187 Ill. App. 480"
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  "court": {
    "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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  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Catherine Cronin, Defendant in Error, v. Court of Honor, Plaintiff in Error."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Smith\ndelivered the opinion of the court.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice Smith"
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    "attorneys": [
      "Francis J. Sullivan, for plaintiff in error; William B. Risse, of counsel.",
      "P. F. Murray, for defendant in error."
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    "head_matter": "Catherine Cronin, Defendant in Error, v. Court of Honor, Plaintiff in Error.\nGen. No. 19,692.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Appeal and ebror, \u00a7 607 \u2014when objection to special findings waived. Plaintiff in error can not urge that special findings of the jury were not warranted by the evidence where the point was not made or raised on its motion for a new trial.\n2. Witnesses, \u00a7 167*\u2014privileged communications. The rule as to privileged communications between a physician and patient is for the benefit of the patient and not the physician, and the physician is not entitled to claim the privilege where the patient has waived it.\n3. Witnesses, \u00a7 167*\u2014when physician not privileged from testifying as to communication with patient. Where a member of a benefit society waived privileged communications between himself and his physician in his contract of insurance, held in a suit against the society for the insurance that the action of the court in allowing the physician, who was called as a witness for defendant, to refuse to testify on the ground of privilege was reversible error.\nError to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Joseph Sabath, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1913.\nReversed and remanded.\nOpinion filed July 14, 1914.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Catherine Cronin against Court of Honor to recover insurance on a certificate of insurance issued to Cornelius Cronin, in which the plaintiff was named as beneficiary. A judgment was recovered by the plaintiff for $1,000 and costs. To reverse the judgment, defendant prosecutes a writ of error.\nFrancis J. Sullivan, for plaintiff in error; William B. Risse, of counsel.\nP. F. Murray, for defendant in error.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
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  "file_name": "0480-01",
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