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  "id": 2969694,
  "name": "Louis Weinberger, Appellee, v. Marshall Field & Company, Appellant",
  "name_abbreviation": "Weinberger v. Marshall Field & Co.",
  "decision_date": "1916-06-19",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 21,320",
  "first_page": "608",
  "last_page": "609",
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      "cite": "199 Ill. App. 608"
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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": [
      "Louis Weinberger, Appellee, v. Marshall Field & Company, Appellant."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Goodwin\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\n2. Roads and bridges, \u00a7 239 \u2014when evidence sufficient to sustain finding that prospective street car passenger struck by wagon not guilty of contributory negligence. In an action for damages for personal injuries alleged to be due to defendant running over the heel of plaintiff with the left rear wheel of its wagon while plaintiff was facing and about to enter a pay-as-you-enter street car at a street intersection, evidence held sufficient to sustain a finding that plaintiff was not guilty of contributory negligence.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice Goodwin"
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    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Frank P. Leffingwell and Egbert J. Folonie, for appellant.",
      "MoEwen, Weissenbach & Shrimski, for appellee."
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    "head_matter": "Louis Weinberger, Appellee, v. Marshall Field & Company, Appellant.\nGen. No. 21,320.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Roads and bridges, \u00a7 239 \u2014when evidence sufficient to sustain,, finding that driver of wagon guilty of negligence in injuring pros pective street car passenger. In an action for damages for personal injuries alleged to be due to defendant running over the heel of plaintiff with the left rear wheel of its wagon while plaintiff was facing and about to enter a pay-as-you-enter street ear at a street intersection, where it appeared that there was nothing to prevent the driver of defendant\u2019s wagon from seeing plaintiff in time to avoid striking him, evidence held sufficient to sustain a finding that defendant was guilty of negligence.\nAppeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Marcus A. Kavanagh, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1915.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed June 19, 1916.\nRehearing denied July 5, 1916.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Louis Weinberger, plaintiff, against Marshall Field & Company, defendant, to recover damages for personal injuries as a result of being struck by the left rear wheel of defendant\u2019s wagon. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.\nWhile plaintiff was standing at the step of a Clark street; southbound, pay-as-you-enter car, at the southwest corner of Clark and Washington streets, which was then the terminal of the line, waiting for the conductor to let him aboard, the left rear wheel of a one-horse wagon belonging to defendant ran over his heel. Plaintiff, at the time of the accident, was facing and about to board the car in question.\nFrank P. Leffingwell and Egbert J. Folonie, for appellant.\nMoEwen, Weissenbach & Shrimski, for appellee.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
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