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  "id": 5412894,
  "name": "Mary Laski, Appellee, v. National Council, Knights and Ladies of Security, Appellant",
  "name_abbreviation": "Laski v. National Council, Knights & Ladies of Security",
  "decision_date": "1916-11-27",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 22,467",
  "first_page": "127",
  "last_page": "128",
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      "cite": "202 Ill. App. 127"
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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",
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    "batch": "2018"
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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Mary Laski, Appellee, v. National Council, Knights and Ladies of Security, Appellant."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice McSurely\ndelivered the opinion of the court.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Presiding Justice McSurely"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "A. W. Fulton, for appellant.",
      "J. Leonard Brill and Harold O. Mules, for appellee. *"
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Mary Laski, Appellee, v. National Council, Knights and Ladies of Security, Appellant.\nGen. No. 22,467.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAppeal from the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. John A. Mahoney, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the March term, .916.\nReversed and remanded.\nOpinion filed November 27, 1916.\nRehearing denied December 11, 1916.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Mary Laski, plaintiff, against the National Council, Knights and Ladies of Security, a corporation, defendant, on a benefit certificate of insurance. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.\nA. W. Fulton, for appellant.\nJ. Leonard Brill and Harold O. Mules, for appellee. *\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Insurance, \u00a7 897 \u2014when question whether insured violated terms of certificate is question for jury. In an action on a benefit certificate, the question whether the deceased had violated his agreement under the certificate or was intemperate in the use of liquors and had died directly or indirectly as a result thereof, which, if so, would under the terms of the certificate prevent a recovery, held for the jury.\n2. Insurance, \u00a7 895a*\u2014when exclusion of evidence as to deceased\u2019s habits and cause of death is erroneous. In an action on a benefit certificate, providing that it should become void if the insured became or was intemperate in the use of liquors after his admission, or if his death should result directly or indirectly from the intemperate use of intoxicating liquors, the exclusion of evidence hy a physician that he had examined the insured shortly before his death and that in his opinion the deceased had died of alcoholism, and of testimony of witnesses who worked with him as to his habits with reference to intoxication, held erroneous.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
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  "file_name": "0127-01",
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