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  "id": 2896434,
  "name": "Anna Stapleton, Appellee, v. National Council of the Knights and Ladies of Security, Appellant",
  "name_abbreviation": "Stapleton v. National Council of Knights & Ladies of Security",
  "decision_date": "1915-04-28",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 20,341",
  "first_page": "482",
  "last_page": "483",
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    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
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    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
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    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Anna Stapleton, Appellee, v. National Council of the Knights and Ladies of Security, Appellant."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice Baume\ndelivered the opinion of the court.",
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        "author": "Mr. Presiding Justice Baume"
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    "attorneys": [
      "A. W. Fulton, for appellant.",
      "Gorman, Pollock, Sullivan & Livingston, for appellee."
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    "head_matter": "Anna Stapleton, Appellee, v. National Council of the Knights and Ladies of Security, Appellant.\nGen. No. 20,341.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAppeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Clabence N. Goodwin, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1914.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed April 28, 1915.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Anna Stapleton in the Superior Court of Cook county against the National Council of the Knights and Ladies of Security to recover the benefit of a certificate issued to Anna A. Stapleton, the deceased daughter of the defendant, wherein a trial by jury resulted in a verdict and judgment against the defendant for $801.50. To reverse the verdict of the jury and the judgment thereon, defendant appeals.\nA. W. Fulton, for appellant.\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Insurance, \u00a7 338 \u2014when insurer hound by acts of physician. A life insurance company is bound by the acts of its regular examining physician who acts within the scope of his authority in filling out the application for insurance.\n2. Insurance, \u00a7 904*\u2014when evidence shows statement of true age at time of application. Evidence in action on a benefit certificate held to sustain plaintiff\u2019s claim that insured in applying for insurance gave her true age to defendant\u2019s physician, but the latter inserted an incorrect age, the applicant at the time having been about two months under the minimum age required for membership.\n3. Appeal and error, \u00a7 1256*\u2014when party cannot complain of error. A party to an action cannot complain of an instruction in his favor.\nGorman, Pollock, Sullivan & Livingston, for appellee.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number,"
  },
  "file_name": "0482-01",
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