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  "id": 5376662,
  "name": "Stefan Tyrakowski, Appellant, v. Hans A. Connell, Appellee",
  "name_abbreviation": "Tyrakowski v. Connell",
  "decision_date": "1916-01-17",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 21,185",
  "first_page": "471",
  "last_page": "472",
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
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    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
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    "parties": [
      "Stefan Tyrakowski, Appellant, v. Hans A. Connell, Appellee."
    ],
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        "text": "Mr. Justice Baker\ndelivered the opinion of the court.",
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    "attorneys": [
      "Thomas E. Swanson and Elwyn E. Long, for appellant.",
      "No appearance for appellee."
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    "head_matter": "Stefan Tyrakowski, Appellant, v. Hans A. Connell, Appellee.\nGen. No. 21,185.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAppeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. M. L. McKinley, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in this court at the March term, 1915.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed January 17, 1916.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Stefan Tyrakowski, plaintiff, against Hans A. Connell, defendant, in the Superior Court of Cook county, to recover for personal injuries sustained as a result of the alleged negligence of defendant in operating his automobile, so that plaintiff was struck by it while crossing a street. From a judgment for defendant, plaintiff appeals.\nIt appeared that the defendant was driving in the right-hand street car track in Milwaukee avenue. Plaintiff started to cross diagonally between two street intersections. The distance between the right-hand rail of the right-hand track and the curb was ten feet five inches. Plaintiff testified that he looked both ways and did not see the car, or know that one was on the street until struck. Defendant testified that he saw plaintiff when he stepped from the curb; being then fifty feet away and going at the rate of ten miles an hour; that the horn of his car was sounded five or six times, but as plaintiff paid no attention he applied the brakes and locked his rear wheels, but the track was wet and the car slid and struck plaintiff. The action was tried by jury and there was a verdict of not guilty.\nThomas E. Swanson and Elwyn E. Long, for appellant.\nNo appearance for appellee.\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Witnesses, \u00a7 279*\u2014when paper signed by party not admissible for purpose of impeachment of witness. In an action to recover for personal injuries sustained by being struck by defendant\u2019s automobile, alleged to have been negligently operated, it is not error to exclude a paper -written in court by defendant at plaintiff's request as evidence tending to impeach defendant\u2019s testimony that he did not write a certain other paper in evidence.\n2. Evidence, \u00a7 450*\u2014when genuineness of handwriting may not be determined by comparison with other writing. The genuineness of handwriting cannot be proved or disputed by comparison with other writing proved or admitted to be genuine unless the writing with which it is sought to be compared is properly in evidence and pertinent to the ease.\n3. Instructions, \u00a7 151*\u2014when requested instruction properly refused. A requested instruction is properly refused where the jury are fully instructed as to the law of the case."
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