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  "id": 5415904,
  "name": "John E. Vos, Appellee, v. Frederick C. Franke, Appellant",
  "name_abbreviation": "Vos v. Franke",
  "decision_date": "1916-11-27",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 22,405",
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    "parties": [
      "John E. Vos, Appellee, v. Frederick C. Franke, Appellant."
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        "text": "Mr. Justice Holdom\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\n2. Automobiles and gabages, \u00a7 3 \u2014when evidence sustains judgment for injured pedestrian. In an action to recover for personal injuries sustained by a pedestrian by being struck by defendant\u2019s automobile while plaintiff was crossing a street, where it appeared that, though plaintiff sought to cross at a point not a regular crossing, defendant\u2019s automobile was being driven out of the regular path of vehicular traffic when it struck plaintiff, a judgment for plaintiff held sustained by the evidence.\n3. Appeal and ebbor, \u00a7 1629*\u2014when improper questions of counsel not reversible error. Improper questions asked by counsel for plaintiff are not reversible error where the evidence and the size of the verdict show that defendant was not prejudiced thereby, and where on prompt objection by defendant the court ruled the questions out, such ruling being a sufficient curative.\n4. Trial, \u00a7 270*\u2014when special interrogatories. Special interrogatories in an action for personal injuries which do not fulfil the legal requirement that they be single and direct and that they relate to an ultimate or controlling fact are properly refused.\n5. Instructions, \u00a7 159*\u2014how considered. Instructions must be taken and read as a whole.\n6. Negligence, \u00a7 204*\u2014when request for directed verdict properly denied. A request for a directed verdict in an action for personal injuries is properly denied where plaintiff\u2019s case presents facts calling for a submission of the case to a jury.\n7. Automobiles and garages, \u00a7 3*\u2014when evidence of competency of driver admissible. In an action for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff as a result of being struck by defendant\u2019s automobile, where one of the issues joined was the failure of defendant to employ a careful and skilful driver, and whether the driver employed lacked such qualities, evidence is competent as to the competency, reliability and reputation of the driver employed by defendant to drive his automobile at the time of the accident, since defendant cannot be heard to complain of evidence pertinent to the issues joined.\n8. Automobiles and garages, \u00a7 3*\u2014when evidence shows driver reckless and unfit. In an action to recover for personal injuries sustained by a pedestrian as a result of being struck by defendant\u2019s automobile, where it appeared that the automobile was being driven by defendant\u2019s servant at a point in the street away from the regular path of vehicular traffic, evidence held to show that the character and conduct of defendant\u2019s driver was reckless, and that such driver was unfit to drive such automobile.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice Holdom"
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    "attorneys": [
      "Willard C. McNitt and Joseph A. Bates, for appellant.",
      "Lewis B. Jacobs and Walter J. Heinemann, for appellee."
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    "head_matter": "John E. Vos, Appellee, v. Frederick C. Franke, Appellant.\nGen. No. 22,405.\n(Not to he reported in full.)\nAppeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Richard S. Tuthill, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the March term, 1916.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed November 27, 1916.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by John E. Vos, plaintiff, against Frederick O. Franke, defendant, in the Circuit Court of Cook county, to recover for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff as a result of being struck by defendant\u2019s automobile. From a judgment for plaintiff for $1,500, defendant appeals.\nThe evidence showed that plaintiff was crossing West 69th street in Chicago when injured, near the alley between Emerald and Union avenues. He was hurrying after another man, and sought to cross the street at a point which was not a regular crossing, but was south of the center of 69th street when struck. Defendant\u2019s automobile was being driven south of the center of such street, without apparent necessity for its being out of the usual line of vehicular traffic. There was no congestion of traffic or street obstruction to account for its being there. The automobile at the time was proceeding' west.\nWillard C. McNitt and Joseph A. Bates, for appellant.\nLewis B. Jacobs and Walter J. Heinemann, for appellee.\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Automobiles and gabages, \u00a7 2 \u2014when injured pedestrian not guilty of contributory negligence. In an action to recover for personal injuries sustained by a pedestrian by being struck by defendant\u2019s automobile, held that plaintiff was not guilty of contributory negligence although when struck he was crossing a street at a point which was not a regular crossing, it also appearing that defendant\u2019s automobile was at the time of the accident being recklessly driven out of the path of vehicular traffic in the street, so that if plaintiff was originally negligent in selecting a point for crossing, he had, when struck, escaped from the path where the automobile should have been driven.\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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