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  "id": 2964346,
  "name": "Nathan Levy, Defendant in Error, v. Swift & Company, Plaintiff in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "Levy v. Swift & Co.",
  "decision_date": "1916-10-10",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 21,462",
  "first_page": "454",
  "last_page": "455",
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      "cite": "201 Ill. App. 454"
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
  },
  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Nathan Levy, Defendant in Error, v. Swift & Company, Plaintiff in Error."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice Barnes\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Municipal Court of Chicago, \u00a7 13 \u2014when statement of claim insufficient., A statement of claim alleging that damage resulted to the plaintiff from an act of the defendant, without an averment of negligence when the act itself does not indicate negligence, does not state a cause of action.\n2. Negligence, \u00a7 187*\u2014when evidence insufficient to show. In an action for damages alleged to have been caused by the bursting of a pipe belonging to the defendant and the precipitation of hot lard upon the plaintiff and his team while driving along a highway, evidence held not to show any negligence on the part of the defendant.\n3. Municipal Court of Chicago, \u00a7 31*\u2014when judgment reversed. Where a statement of claim does not allege a cause of action, a judgment for the plaintiff will be reversed.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Presiding Justice Barnes"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "R. C. McManus, for plaintiff in error.",
      "No appearance for defendant in error."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Nathan Levy, Defendant in Error, v. Swift & Company, Plaintiff in Error.\nGen. No. 21,462.\n(Not to he reported in full.)\nError to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. John C. Work, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1915.\nReversed.\nOpinion filed October 10, 1916.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Nathan Levy, plaintiff, against Swift & Company, a corporation, defendant, to recover damages for injury to the plaintiff\u2019s horse, wagon and harness, resulting from the precipitation of hot lard thereon, occasioned by the bursting of defendant\u2019s pipe through which the lard was being pumped. To review a judgment for plaintiff, defendant prosecutes a writ of error.\nR. C. McManus, 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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