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  "id": 2900249,
  "name": "L. E. Thompson, Appellee, v. The Security Insurance Company of New Haven, Appellant",
  "name_abbreviation": "Thompson v. Security Insurance Co. of New Haven",
  "decision_date": "1914-10-16",
  "docket_number": "",
  "first_page": "442",
  "last_page": "442",
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      "cite": "190 Ill. App. 442"
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  "court": {
    "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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  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
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    "parties": [
      "L. E. Thompson, Appellee, v. The Security Insurance Company of New Haven, Appellant."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Eldredge\ndelivered the opinion of the court.",
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    "attorneys": [
      "H. A. Neal, for appellant.",
      "Albert C. Anderson, for appellee"
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    "head_matter": "L. E. Thompson, Appellee, v. The Security Insurance Company of New Haven, Appellant.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Insurance, \u00a7 661 \u2014when evidence sufficient to prove oral contract. In an action to recover on an oral contract of fire insurance, where plaintiff testifies to the terms of the contract and its making with defendant\u2019s agent and is more or less corroborated by his son and by a minor employee who were present, while the making of the contract is denied by defendant\u2019s agent, a verdict for plaintiff is not contrary to the manifest weight of the evidence.\n2. Instructions, \u00a7 151*\u2014when error in giving harmless. Where an instruction, though objectionable, could not, when read together with all the other instructions, have misled the jury, it is not reversible error.\nScholfield, J., took no part of the consideration of this case.\nAppeal from the Circuit Court of Coles county; the Hon. William B. Scholfield, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the April term, 1914.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed October 16, 1914.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction of assumpsit by L. E. Thompson against the Security Insurance Company of New Haven on an oral contract of insurance.\nThe plaintiff recovered a verdict for six hundred and ninety dollars, on which a judgment was entered. From this judgment defendant appeals, assigning as error that the making of the contract was not proved by a preponderance of the evidence and that the giving of certain instructions was error.\nH. A. Neal, for appellant.\nAlbert C. Anderson, for appellee\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
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