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  "id": 5417677,
  "name": "James B. Paden, Defendant in Error, v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company, Plaintiff in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "Paden v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.",
  "decision_date": "1915-12-27",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 6,142",
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      "James B. Paden, Defendant in Error, v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company, Plaintiff in Error."
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        "text": "Mr. Justice Carnes\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\n3. Damages, \u00a7 205*\u2014when instruction that damages can only he based upon injury complained of is necessary. Where a plaintiff in a personal injury action is suffering disability that may have arisen only in part from the injury complained of, instructions as to the measure of damages that might otherwise be good should he carefully guarded, and the jury clearly informed that damages can be based only upon the injury complained of.\n4. Damages, \u00a7 202*\u2014when instruction on measure of damages for personal injuries not misleading. In an action for damages for personal injuries sustained by a teamster engaged in unloading coal from a car on a railroad side track, as the result of the car being struck by another car so as to cause plaintiff to fall to the ground, an instruction on the measure of damages that if the jury found the defendant guilty in assessing damages \u201cthey should take into consideration all the facts and circumstances shown by the evidence before them, the nature and extent of plaintiff\u2019s physical injuries, if any, so far as the same are alleged in the declaration and shown by the evidence,\u201d held not misleading where the court gave other instructions limiting the plaintiff's damages to such as were the proximate result of the defendant's neglect, and were not due to other causes, and specifically told them that if they found from the evidence that the condition of plaintiff\u2019s rupture which necessitated the operation he underwent did not result from\u2019the accident as the natural and proximate consequence thereof, then, in determining the damages, they should leave out of consideration the fact of the operation, the time lost thereby, and the expense paid and suffering connected therewith.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice Carnes"
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    "attorneys": [
      "William D. Fullerton and A. B. Enoch, for plaintiff in error.",
      "Thomas N. Haskins and Butters & Clark, for defendant in error."
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    "head_matter": "James B. Paden, Defendant in Error, v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company, Plaintiff in Error.\nGen. No. 6,142.\n(Not to he reported in full.)\nError to the, Circuit Court of La Salle county; the Hon. Joe A. Davis, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1915.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed December 27, 1915.\nRehearing denied February 1, 1916.\nStatement of the Case.\n\u2022 Action by James B. Paden, plaintiff, against the Chicago, Bock Island & Pacific Bailway Company, defendant, to recover damages for personal injuries sustained as a result of the car from which he was unloading coal being struck by another car with such force as to throw plaintiff to the ground. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant brings error.\nPlaintiff was a teamster, and was unloading coal from a car that had been placed on a side track by the defendant, and while so engaged a switching crew of the defendant shoved another car against the one from which the plaintiff was taking coal, with such force as to throw him to the ground and injure him.\nThe declaration charged that the defendant in the use and operation of its railroad had a team or merchandise track connected with its road in the Village of DePue, in the County of LaSalle, which track was used by the defendant in placing cars thereon containing freight, so that parties entitled thereto might be enabled to unload said freight from said cars, or load freight into the cars; that on January 12, 1914, the plaintiff was engaged in unloading certain freight from one of the cars so used and operated by the defendant while said car was standing upon the said merchandise track.\nThe only instruction given at the instance of plaintiff. was on the measure of damages. The injury claimed was an aggravation of a hernia, from which the plaintiff had been some time suffering, and there was evidence before the jury as to a surgical operation performed on plaintiff after the time in question. The instruction complained of informed the jury that if they found the defendant guilty in assessing damages \u201cthey should take into consideration all the facts and circumstances shown by the evidence before them; the nature and extent of the plaintiff\u2019s physical injuries, if any, so far as the same are alleged in the declaration and shown by the evidence.\u201d\nThe court, at the instance of the defendant, instructed the jury that the damages must be confined to such as were the natural proximate result of the defendant\u2019s neglect; that the burden of proof was on the plaintiff to show his injuries were caused by the defendant\u2019s neglect, and if they believed that the injuries from which plaintiff complained resulted from other causes than the defendant\u2019s negligence that the complainant could not recover anything for injuries, and specifically told them if they found from the evidence that the condition of the plaintiff\u2019s rupture which necessitated the operation he underwent did not result from the accident of which he complains as a natural and proximate consequence, but was a condition in no way connected therewith, then in determining what his damages were they should leave out of consideration the fact of the operation, the time lost thereby, and the expense paid and suffering connected therewith.\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Pleading, \u00a7 466 \u2014when defects or omissions in, cured 6y verdict. Where there is any defect, imperfection or omission in any pleading, whether in substance or in form, which would have been a fatal objection on demurrer, yet if the issue joined be such as necessarily required, on the trial, proof of the facts so imperfectly' or defectively stated or omitted, and without which it is not to be presumed that the judge would direct the jury to give, or the jury would have given, the verdict, such defect, imperfection or omission is cured by the verdict.\n2. Pleading, \u00a7 466 \u2014when defective declaration in action for negligent injuries cured 6y verdict. In an action by a teamster for damages for personal injuries sustained as the result of the car from which plaintiff was unloading coal on a sidetrack of a railroad company being struck by another car being switched on the track by the company\u2019s servants, a declaration which failed to allege that plaintiff was lawfully on such side track, held good after verdict.\nWilliam D. Fullerton and A. B. Enoch, for plaintiff in error.\nThomas N. Haskins and Butters & Clark, for defendant in error.\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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