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  "id": 2882514,
  "name": "A. E. Bertling, Defendant in Error, v. Oxweld Acetylene Company, Plaintiff in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "Bertling v. Oxweld Acetylene Co.",
  "decision_date": "1915-04-22",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 20,175",
  "first_page": "7",
  "last_page": "8",
  "citations": [
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      "cite": "193 Ill. App. 7"
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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",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "A. E. Bertling, Defendant in Error, v. Oxweld Acetylene Company, Plaintiff in Error."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Scanlan\ndelivered the opinion of the court.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice Scanlan"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Sears, Meagher & Whitney, for plaintiff in error; Edwin Hedrick, Jr. and John W. McCarthy, of counsel.",
      "George H. Fenn and William M. Lawton, for defendant in error."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "A. E. Bertling, Defendant in Error, v. Oxweld Acetylene Company, Plaintiff in Error.\nGen. No. 20,175.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nError to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. John J. Rooney, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1914.\nReversed and remanded.\nOpinion filed April 22, 1915.\nStatement of the Case.\nThe plaintiff was allowed to testify over the objection of the defendant that after the collision the chauffeur in charge of defendant\u2019s automobile got out of his automobile and walked to where the plaintiff was standing by his own machine and said: \u201cMy steering knuckle broke and I couldn\u2019t help it; send the bill to the Oxweld Company; I called the attention of my boss to the condition of the steering knuckle, and that it was defective; send in your bill to the Oxweld Company and they will fix it up all right.\u201d\nAbstract of the Decision.\nEvidence, \u00a7 80 \u2014when declaration Toy employee not part of res gestw. Statement by chauffeur in charge of automobile colliding with another, attributing the collision to the defective condition of his steering knuckle, made after the collision and while plaintiff was standing beside his machine, held not part of the res gestee.\nUpon a trial without a jury, plaintiff recovered judgment for $112.50, from which defendant brings error.\nSears, Meagher & Whitney, for plaintiff in error; Edwin Hedrick, Jr. and John W. McCarthy, of counsel.\nGeorge H. Fenn and William M. Lawton, for defendant in error.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
  },
  "file_name": "0007-01",
  "first_page_order": 29,
  "last_page_order": 30
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