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  "id": 5402666,
  "name": "Charles T. Smith, Appellee, v. Village of Sidell, Appellant",
  "name_abbreviation": "Smith v. Village of Sidell",
  "decision_date": "1917-04-16",
  "docket_number": "",
  "first_page": "66",
  "last_page": "67",
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      "type": "official",
      "cite": "205 Ill. App. 66"
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
  },
  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
  },
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  "last_updated": "2023-07-14T17:46:37.056812+00:00",
  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Charles T. Smith, Appellee, v. Village of Sidell, Appellant."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Graves\ndelivered the opinion of the court.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice Graves"
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    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "R. Allan Stephens, for appellant.",
      "Lindley, Penwell & Lindley and Swallow & Bookwalter, for appellee."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Charles T. Smith, Appellee, v. Village of Sidell, Appellant.\n(Not to he reported in full.)\nAppeal from the Circuit Court of Vermilion county; the Hon. Augustus A. Pabtlow, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1916.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed April 16, 1917.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Charles T. Smith,. plaintiff, against the Village of Sidell, a municipal corporation, defendant, to recover damages for personal injuries sustained in a collision between an automobile driven by plaintiff and a rope stretched across one of defendant\u2019s streets by its authorities to keep off travel while oil placed ther\u00e9on for improvement of the road was fresh. From a judgment for plaintiff for one hundred dollars, defendant appeals.\nAbstract of the Decision.\nMunicipal cobporations, \u00a7 1107 \u2014what are questions for jury in action for' injuries received 6y colliding with roye stretched across street. In an action against a city to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff\u2019s automobile running into a rope stretched by defendant across one of defendant\u2019s streets to keep off travel while oil placed thereon for improvement of such street was fresh, the amount of the injury, whether same was due to defendant\u2019s negligence to properly warn the traveling public by lights or otherwise of the obstruction or was due to plaintiff\u2019s negligence in driving into the rope, held to he questions for the jury.\nR. Allan Stephens, for appellant.\nLindley, Penwell & Lindley and Swallow & Bookwalter, for appellee.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
  },
  "file_name": "0066-01",
  "first_page_order": 94,
  "last_page_order": 95
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