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  "name": "Stanislaw Kuzmierczyk, Defendant in Error, v. Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company, Plaintiff in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "Kuzmierczyk v. Joseph Schlitz Brewing Co.",
  "decision_date": "1916-10-10",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 21,619",
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    "parties": [
      "Stanislaw Kuzmierczyk, Defendant in Error, v. Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company, Plaintiff in Error."
    ],
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        "text": "Mr. Justice McDonald\ndelivered the opinion of the court.",
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        "author": "Mr. Justice McDonald"
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    "attorneys": [
      "Timothy J. Fell, for plaintiff in error; Hermann P. Haase, of counsel.",
      "Walter J. Fried, for defendant in error."
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    "head_matter": "Stanislaw Kuzmierczyk, Defendant in Error, v. Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company, Plaintiff in Error.\nGen. No. 21,619.\n(Not to he reported in full.)\nError to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. D. H. Wahsley, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1915.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed October 10, 1916.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Stanislaw Kuzmierczyk, plaintiff, against the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company, a corporation, defendant, for damages to property alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant. To review a judgment for plaintiff, defendant prosecutes a writ of error.\nThe statement of claim filed herein alleged as follows:\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Municipal Court of Chicago, \u00a7 13 \u2014when need not he set forth in statement of claim. It is not essential that a statement of claim in an action of the fourth class in tort, based on the defendant\u2019s negligence, set forth that the plaintiff was in the exerpise of due care prior to and at the time of the defendant\u2019s negligent act.\n2. Municipal Court of Chicago, \u00a7 13*\u2014when statement of claim sufficient. A statement of claim, in an action of the fourth class, for injuries to the plaintiff\u2019s wagon and harness and death of his horse, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant, held to comply with the requirements of the Municipal Court Act, sec. 40 (J. & A. \u00b6 3352).\n3. Roads and bridges, \u00a7 239*\u2014when evidence sufficient to show negligence of owner of team. In an action for damages to the plaintiff\u2019s wagon and harness and for the death of his horse, alleged to have been caused by a collision with a team belonging to the defendant, evidence that the defendant\u2019s team was left standing unattended in the street, the horses\u2019 heads being fastened by hitching straps to the pole of the wagon to which they were attached. held to sufficiently show negligence on the part of the defendant to sustain a judgment for the plaintiff.\n\u201cPlaintiff\u2019s claim is for the killing of his horse and injuries caused to plaintiff\u2019s wagon and harness on to-wit: the 3rd day of March, A. D. 1914, in Milwaukee Ave., at or near its intersection with Chicago Ave., in the city of Chicago, by reason of a wagon then and there belonging to defendant corporation and then and there operated and managed and under the control of a servant of defendant corporation, colliding with plaintiff\u2019s said horse, wagon and harness; said collision being caused by the negligence of the servant of defendant corporation to the damage of plaintiff in the sum of $200.00.\u201d\nTimothy J. Fell, for plaintiff in error; Hermann P. Haase, of counsel.\nWalter J. Fried, for defendant in error.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
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