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  "id": 2951436,
  "name": "James F. Bishop, Administrator, Appellant, v. Chicago City Railway Company, Appellee",
  "name_abbreviation": "Bishop v. Chicago City Railway Co.",
  "decision_date": "1917-03-12",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 22,688",
  "first_page": "286",
  "last_page": "287",
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      "cite": "204 Ill. App. 286"
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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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    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "James F. Bishop, Administrator, Appellant, v. Chicago City Railway Company, Appellee."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice McSurely\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\n3. Death, \u00a7 8 \u2014when physician\u2019s death certificate is inadmissible in evidence. A death certificate issued by a physician in another State who attended plaintiff\u2019s intestate at the time of the latter\u2019s death, stating that death was due to the intestate being run over by a street car three months prior to such physician\u2019s attendance on the intestate, held inadmissible, in an action to recover damages for such death, as being mere hearsay.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Presiding Justice McSurely"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Mancha Bruggemeyer, for appellant.",
      "John E. Kehoe and Charles Le Boy Brown, for appellee; John B. Cuilliams, of counsel."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "James F. Bishop, Administrator, Appellant, v. Chicago City Railway Company, Appellee.\nGen. No. 22,688.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Street railroads, \u00a7 138 \u2014when direction of verdict for defendant in action for death is proper. In an action to recover damages for death alleged to have been due to defendant\u2019s negligence in the operation of a street car alleged to have been owned by defendant, where such ownership was denied, and the plaintiff introduced no evidence as to the deceased\u2019s care or the negligence of the\" defendant or the defendant\u2019s ownership of the car, held that it was proper for the court peremptorily to instruct the jury to find for the defendant.\n2. Death, \u00a7 8*-^when death certificate is inadmissible in evidence. A death certificate is not admissible in evidence for the purpose of showing some collateral fact as the cause of death, in an action to recover damages for dehth.\nAppeal from the Superior Court of Cook county;, the Hon. H. Sterling Pomeroy, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1916.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed March 12, 1917.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by James F. Bishop, administrator of the estate of Anna Temkin, deceased, plaintiff, against the Chicago City Bailway Company, defendant, to recover damages for the death of plaintiff\u2019s intestate caused by one of defendant\u2019s street cars. From a judgment for defendant, plaintiff appeals.\nMancha Bruggemeyer, for appellant.\nJohn E. Kehoe and Charles Le Boy Brown, for appellee; John B. Cuilliams, 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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