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  "id": 2949653,
  "name": "Thomas D. Smith, Appellant, v. Thomas Freeman and Martha Freeman, Appellees",
  "name_abbreviation": "Smith v. Freeman",
  "decision_date": "1917-04-16",
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  "first_page": "638",
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
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    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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    "batch": "2018"
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    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Thomas D. Smith, Appellant, v. Thomas Freeman and Martha Freeman, Appellees."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Eldredge\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\n2. Instructions, \u00a7 159*\u2014consideration as series. The instructions taken as a series held to have fairly instructed the jury.",
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        "author": "Mr. Justice Eldredge"
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    "attorneys": [
      "Walter T. Gunn, for appellant; Thomas A. Graham, of counsel.",
      "Tilton & Taylor, for appellees."
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    "head_matter": "Thomas D. Smith, Appellant, v. Thomas Freeman and Martha Freeman, Appellees.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Master and servant, \u00a7 688 \u2014when evidence sufficient to sustain -finding as to construction of scaffold by employee or knowledge of defective condition. Evidence held sufficient to sustain the finding either that plaintiff constructed the scaffold by the breaking of which he was injured, or had full knowledge of its construction and condition before he went upon it, in an action to recover damages for such injuries sustained while plaintiff was working as a carpenter in building a porch for defendants.\nAppeal from, the Circuit Court of Vermilion county; the Hon. Walter Brewer, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1916.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed April 16, 1917.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Thomas D. Smith, plaintiff, against Thomas Freeman and Martha Freeman, defendants, to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff while working as a carpenter in building a porch for defendants. From a judgment for defendants, plaintiff appeals.\nWalter T. Gunn, for appellant; Thomas A. Graham, of counsel.\nTilton & Taylor, for appellees.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
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  "last_page_order": 665
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