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  "id": 5375950,
  "name": "Frank Schoenfeld, Defendant in Error, v. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company, Plaintiff in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "Schoenfeld v. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co.",
  "decision_date": "1916-01-11",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 21,141",
  "first_page": "419",
  "last_page": "420",
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      "cite": "197 Ill. App. 419"
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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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    "parties": [
      "Frank Schoenfeld, Defendant in Error, v. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company, Plaintiff in Error."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Barnes\ndelivered the opinion of the court.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice Barnes"
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    "attorneys": [
      "Robert J. Cary and Bertrand Walker, for plaintiff in error.",
      "No appearance for defendant in error."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Frank Schoenfeld, Defendant in Error, v. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company, Plaintiff in Error.\nGen. No. 21,141.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAbstract of the Decision.\nCarriers, \u00a7 20 \u2014when presumed that connecting carrier acts as mere agent of initial carrier. In the absence of evidence to the contrary, it is presumed that a railroad company selling a through ticket over its own and a connecting line merely acts as agent for such line, and is not liable in damages to the purchaser for the refusal of the connecting line to honor the ticket and transport the passenger in accordance therewith.\nError to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Edward T. Wade, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1915.\nReversed.\nOpinion filed January 11, 1916.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Frank Schoenfeld, plaintiff, against the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company, defendant, to recover the amount .of fare paid on refusal of defendant to honor a ticket purchased by plaintiff. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant brings error.\nThe plaintiff purchased from the defendant a round trip ticket over the defendant\u2019s line to a point on a connecting line. On refusal of the connecting line to honor the ticket the plaintiff was obliged to pay for his transportation over again, and to recover the amount so expended brings this action.\nRobert J. Cary and Bertrand Walker, for plaintiff in error.\nNo appearance for defendant in error.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols, XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
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  "file_name": "0419-01",
  "first_page_order": 441,
  "last_page_order": 442
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