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  "id": 2944404,
  "name": "W. H. Cline, Appellant, v. City of LeRoy, Appellee",
  "name_abbreviation": "Cline v. City of LeRoy",
  "decision_date": "1917-04-16",
  "docket_number": "",
  "first_page": "558",
  "last_page": "559",
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      "cite": "204 Ill. App. 558"
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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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  "last_updated": "2023-07-14T20:49:07.214052+00:00",
  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "W. H. Cline, Appellant, v. City of LeRoy, Appellee."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice Thompson\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\n2. Trial, \u00a7 195*\u2014when instructing of verdict improper. Where there is evidence tending to support the contention of both parties, the trial court cannot instruct a verdict.",
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        "author": "Mr. Presiding Justice Thompson"
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    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Livingston & Bach and Sterling & Whitmore, for appellant.",
      "De Mange, Gillespie & De Mange and Leslie J. Owen, for appellee."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "W. H. Cline, Appellant, v. City of LeRoy, Appellee.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Mobs, \u00a7 12 \u2014when evidence insufficient to sustain verdict for city in action for damages for injury to property. In an action to recover, under section 256a of the Criminal Code (J. & A. 1f 3917), damages against a city for injuries to or destruction of plaintiff\u2019s property by a mob, where it appeared that a crowd of one hundred fifty to three hundred persons congregated about plaintiff\u2019s residence, shouted, pounded on the house, hammered on circular saws hung on trees in the yard, fired guns, threw bricks through windows, built a fire in the street with plaintiff\u2019s lumber, burned his lawn mower, attached a hose to a faucet and threw water over and about the house, plastered mud on the porch, and drove plaintiff and his wife into a closet in terror, and both the city mayor and the marshal knew of such actions on the part of the crowd but took no steps to stop same, held that a verdict and judgment for the defendant were against the manifest weight of the evidence.\nAppeal from the County Court of McLean county; the Hon. James C. Riley, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1916.\nReversed and remanded.\nOpinion filed April 16, 1917.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by W. H. Cline, plaintiff, against the City of LeRoy, defendant, to recover, under section 256a of the Criminal Code (J. & A. j[ 3917), three-fourths of the damages to plaintiff\u2019s property injured or destroyed by a mob. From a judgment for defendant, plaintiff appeals.\nLivingston & Bach and Sterling & Whitmore, for appellant.\nDe Mange, Gillespie & De Mange and Leslie J. Owen, for appellee.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
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  "file_name": "0558-01",
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