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  "id": 2948546,
  "name": "James F. Bishop, Administrator, Plaintiff in Error, v. Chicago Railways Company, Defendant in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "Bishop v. Chicago Railways Co.",
  "decision_date": "1917-02-19",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 22,646",
  "first_page": "205",
  "last_page": "206",
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      "cite": "204 Ill. App. 205"
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    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
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    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "James F. Bishop, Administrator, Plaintiff in Error, v. Chicago Railways Company, Defendant in Error."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Dever\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\n2. Coroners, \u00a7 2 \u2014what is power of jury. A coroner\u2019s jury has no power to fix civil liability.\n3. Evidence, \u00a7 232*\u2014when part of coroner\u2019s verdict is inadmissible. As a coroner\u2019s jury has no power to fix civil liability, that part of a verdict admitted in evidence which stated that they found the accident causing the death of the deceased could have been avoided had the motorman of the car which struck and killed the deceased exercised greater care, held properly excluded, in an action to recover damages for such death.",
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        "author": "Mr. Justice Dever"
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    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Edward F. Dunne, Jr., Daniel L. Madden and Roy C. Merrick, for plaintiff in error.",
      "P. L. McArdle and Frank L. Kriete, for defendant in error; W. W. Gurley and J. R. Guilliams, of counsel."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "James F. Bishop, Administrator, Plaintiff in Error, v. Chicago Railways Company, Defendant in Error.\nGen. No. 22,646.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Street railroads, \u00a7 97 \u2014when pedestrian crossing street is guilty of contributory negligence which is proximate cause of his death. In an action to recover damages for death resulting from injuries by being struck by a street car, where it appeared the deceased was thirty-three years old, with good sight and hearing, that his view on the street was unobstructed, and that he attempted to cross the street rapidly midway between two intersecting streets in front of a car which was approaching at a high rate of speed, held that ordinary prudence should have warned the deceased that death or injury was almost certain to result to him under such circumstances, and that he was guilty of negligence which proximately contributed to his death and precluded recovery against the owner of such street car.\nError to the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Charles M. Walker, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1916.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed February 19, 1917.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by James F. Bishop, administrator of the estate of Carl O. Wiberg, deceased, plaintiff, against the Chicago Railways Company, defendant, to recover damages for the death of plaintiff\u2019s intestate from injuries sustained by his being run into by defendant\u2019s street car. From a judgment for defendant, plaintiff brings error.\nEdward F. Dunne, Jr., Daniel L. Madden and Roy C. Merrick, for plaintiff in error.\nP. L. McArdle and Frank L. Kriete, for defendant in error; W. W. Gurley and J. R. Guilliams, of counsel.\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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