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  "id": 2879987,
  "name": "Mary A. O'Brien, Appellee, v. National Council Knights and Ladies of Security, Appellant",
  "name_abbreviation": "O'Brien v. National Council Knights & Ladies of Security",
  "decision_date": "1915-10-05",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 20,894",
  "first_page": "625",
  "last_page": "626",
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      "cite": "194 Ill. App. 625"
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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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    "batch": "2018"
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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Mary A. O\u2019Brien, Appellee, v. National Council Knights and Ladies of Security, Appellant."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice Gridley\ndelivered the opinion of the court.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Presiding Justice Gridley"
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    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "A. W. Fulton, for appellant.",
      "T. F. Monahan, for appellee."
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    "head_matter": "Mary A. O\u2019Brien, Appellee, v. National Council Knights and Ladies of Security, Appellant.\nGen. No. 20,894.\n(Not to he reported in full.)\nAppeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. H. Sterling Pomeroy, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1914.\nReversed and remanded.\nOpinion filed October 5, 1915.\nAbstract of the Decision.\nInsurance, \u00a7 897 \u2014when misrepresentation a question of fact. In an action to recover on a certificate of insurance, where there was evidence that insured had not complied with the terms of his contract, in that some of the representations in insured\u2019s application for insurance were false, and also in that insured, at the time of death, was not in good standing according to the by-laws of defendant\u2019s society, held that a peremptory instruction for plaintiff was erroneous, and that the case should have been submitted to the jury under proper instructions.\nStatement of the Case.\n. Action by Mary A. O\u2019Brien, plaintiff, against the National Council Knights and Ladies of Security, defendant, in the Superior Court of Cook county, to recover on a certificate of insurance issued by defendant, a fraternal beneficiary society, to William P. O\u2019Brien, and payable on his death in good standing to plaintiff, his mother.\nThe defense, in part, was that deceased in his application for membership had falsely stated the cause of death of a sister to have been \u201cpleurisy,\u2019\u2019while there was evidence that both the sister and deceased died as the result of consumption.\nFrom a judgment for plaintiff for $918.40, defendant appeals.\nA. W. Fulton, for appellant.\nT. F. Monahan, for appellee.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
  },
  "file_name": "0625-01",
  "first_page_order": 647,
  "last_page_order": 648
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