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  "id": 5413562,
  "name": "Albert Richard, Appellee, v. Brunner Foundry & Machinery Company, Appellant",
  "name_abbreviation": "Richard v. Brunner Foundry & Machinery Co.",
  "decision_date": "1916-10-12",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 6,183",
  "first_page": "514",
  "last_page": "515",
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    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
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  "jurisdiction": {
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    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Albert Richard, Appellee, v. Brunner Foundry & Machinery Company, Appellant."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice Niehaus\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\n2. Damages, \u00a7 186 \u2014when evidence as to possible results of injury is inadmissible. Evidence as to possible results of plaintiff\u2019s injury to his right eye and its possible effect on his other eye, held incompetent and properly excluded in an action to recover damages for such injury.\n3. Damages, \u00a7 244 \u2014when admission of improper evidence is harmless error. In an action for damages for personal injuries, held that the improper admission of evidence as to the possible results of the injury was harmless error where there was nothing to show that the jury considered or were influenced by such evidence in finding for the plaintiff.\nCashes, J., dissenting.",
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        "author": "Mr. Presiding Justice Niehaus"
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    "attorneys": [
      "McDougall & Chapman and Howard H. Bayne, for appellant.",
      "Duncan & O\u2019Conor, for appellee."
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    "head_matter": "Albert Richard, Appellee, v. Brunner Foundry & Machinery Company, Appellant.\nGen. No. 6,183.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Master and servant, \u00a7 697 \u2014when evidence sufficient to show injury to servant by inexperienced coemployee. Evidence in an action by an employee for personal injuries, held to tend to show plaintiff\u2019s injury was caused by improper or careless handling of a hammer by defendant\u2019s employee and that he was inexperienced in that line of work.\nAppeal from the Circuit Court of La Salle county; the Hon. Edgar Eldbedge, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1915.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed October 12, 1916.\nCertiorari denied by Supreme Court (making opinion final).\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Albert Richard, plaintiff, against Brunner Foundry & Machinery Company, defendant, to recover damages for injuries to plaintiff\u2019s right eye. From a judgment for plaintiff for $5,000, defendant appeals.\nPlaintiff was employed as a fireman in the boiler room of the St. Paul Coal Company, where defendant was engaged in putting in new flues in a boiler adjoining the one on which plaintiff was at work. Defendant\u2019s employees were engaged in expanding a new flue by hammering on the head of a steel driftpin so as to, drive it into the expander. Plaintiff\u2019s eye was injured by a piece of the head of the pin flying off when it was struck by the hammer in the hands of defendant\u2019s employee.\nMcDougall & Chapman and Howard H. Bayne, for appellant.\nDuncan & O\u2019Conor, for appellee.\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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