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  "name": "John W. Haskins, Appellee, v. St. Louis & Springfield Railway Company, Appellant",
  "name_abbreviation": "Haskins v. St. Louis & Springfield Railway Co.",
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    "parties": [
      "John W. Haskins, Appellee, v. St. Louis & Springfield Railway Company, Appellant."
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    "attorneys": [
      "Graham & Graham and John B. Hardaway, for appellant; George W. Burton, of counsel.",
      "W. St. J. Wines, for appellee."
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    "head_matter": "John W. Haskins, Appellee, v. St. Louis & Springfield Railway Company, Appellant.\n(Not to he reported in full.)\nAppeal from the Circuit Court of Sangamon county; the Hon. James A. Creighton, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in this court at the October term, 1914.\nReversed.\nOpinion filed December 11, 1914.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by John W. Haskins against the St. Louis & Springfield Railway Company to recover damages for personal injuries. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.\nThe plaintiff, a passenger upon an interurban car to which was attached a trailer, stepped off the car at night in a well-lighted section of the city and could have seen the trailer if he had looked, but started to walk a short distance towards the brilliantly-lighted section of the city in the same way the car was going. He then attempted to cross the street behind the first car and was knocked down and injured by the trailer. Plaintiff claimed he had never known of a trailer being used before.\nGraham & Graham and John B. Hardaway, for appellant; George W. Burton, of counsel.\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Negligence, \u00a7 68 \u2014when plaintiff must prove due care. The plaintiff, in order to recover for damages for personal injuries, must prove that he was in the exercise of due care at time of \u2022injury.\n2. Carriers; \u00a7 329*\u2014when relation as passenger terminated. One who has ridden as a passenger on an interurban car ceases to be a passenger when he has alighted from the car upon a public street, intending to pursue his further journey on foot.\n3. Carriers, \u00a7 438*\u2014when passenger negligent after alighting. One who had been a passenger upon an interurban train and had alighted therefrom in a 'city was not in the exercise of due care, but was guilty of gross negligence where it appeared that he had alighted from the train intending to cross the street behind the car; that he walked towards the brilliantly-lighted section of the city in the same direction that the car was going, and after walking a short distance attempted to cross the street between the car and a trailer and was knocked down and injured; that the street was brightly lighted and the plaintiff could have seen the trailer' at the time he got off the car, if he had looked, that th\u00e9 train had lights on both ends; that plaintiff was under the influence of liquor, and his only excuse for not seeing the trailer was that the brilliant lights of the city dazzled him.\nW. St. J. Wines, for appellee.\nSec Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
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