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  "id": 5416025,
  "name": "The People of the State of Illinois ex rel. Esther Kominsky, Appellee, v. Harry Engert, Appellant",
  "name_abbreviation": "People ex rel. Kominsky v. Engert",
  "decision_date": "1916-12-19",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 21,876",
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    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
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    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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    "parties": [
      "The People of the State of Illinois ex rel. Esther Kominsky, Appellee, v. Harry Engert, Appellant."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice McG-oorty\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Bastards, \u00a7 22 \u2014when evidence insufficient to sustain judgment against defendant. Where in a bastardy case the defendant \u2022testified that the relatrix told him that just prior to their having sexual intercourse for the first time she went out automobile riding with a couple of fellows but did not remember just what happened during that time, and the relatrix admitted that she told the defendant that she had been out riding on that occasion but denied that she told him that something had happened to her or that she had been drinking, held that the doubtful character of the evidence adduced by the relatrix required the reversal of a judgment against the defendant.\n2. Bastards, \u00a7 20*\u2014who has burden of proving paternity of child. In a bastardy case the relatrix has the burden of establishing the paternity of the child by the greater weight of the evidence.",
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        "author": "Mr. Justice McG-oorty"
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    "attorneys": [
      "Benjamin E. Cohen, for appellant.",
      "No appearance for appellee."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "The People of the State of Illinois ex rel. Esther Kominsky, Appellee, v. Harry Engert, Appellant.\nGen. No. 21,876.\n(Not to he reported in full.)\nAppeal from the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Habby M. Fisher, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1915.\nReversed and remanded.\nOpinion filed December 19, 1916.\nStatement of the Case.\nBastardy proceedings by the People of the State of Illinois, on the relation of Esther Kominsky, against Harry Engert, defendant. From a judgment against him, the defendant appeals.\nBenjamin E. Cohen, for appellant.\nNo appearance for appellee.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
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