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  "id": 5402493,
  "name": "Jennie Chapman, Appellee, v. Chicago City Railway Company, Appellant",
  "name_abbreviation": "Chapman v. Chicago City Railway Co.",
  "decision_date": "1917-05-09",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 21,981",
  "first_page": "497",
  "last_page": "498",
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      "cite": "205 Ill. App. 497"
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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": [
      "Jennie Chapman, Appellee, v. Chicago City Railway Company, Appellant."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Goodwin\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\n3. Appeal and error, \u00a7 1316*\u2014when not assumed that jury decided case on another theory. Where the instructions offered on behalf of both parties showed the case was submitted to the jury upon a certain theory, held that the court could not decide the case upon an hypothesis, resting upon surmise and conjecture, that the jury decided the case upon another theory.\n4. Instructions, \u00a7 18*\u2014lohen fatally erroneous because argumentative and misleading. Where the testimony as to a party\u2019s intoxication was sharply conflicting and the question was of importance, an instruction as to the consideration of such testimony which was argumentative and misleading, held to be fatally erroneous.\nO\u2019Connor, P. J., dissenting.",
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    "attorneys": [
      "Franklin B. Hussey and Charles Le Roy Brown, for appellant; John R. Guilliams, of counsel.",
      "Richard J. Finn, for appellee."
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    "head_matter": "Jennie Chapman, Appellee, v. Chicago City Railway Company, Appellant.\nGen. No. 21,981.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Negligence, \u00a7 209 \u2014when instruction on voluntary intoxication as contributory negligence is erroneous. An instruction that \u201cwhile evidence of voluntary intoxication is competent to be considered by the jury in determining whether the person was taking that care of \u201ehis safety which a reasonably prudent man or woman, who was sober, would take under the same circumstances, it does not of itself constitute contributory negligence,\u201d held, argumentative and misleading, and as attempting to minimize or destroy the effect of legitimate evidence.\n2. Appeal and ebrob, \u00a7 1652*\u2014when error in instruction not cured by another instruction. \"Where two instructions, one of which was argumentative, misleading and incomplete, as to the consideration by the jury of evidence as to intoxication of a party, were detached and disconnected, held that it could not be assumed that the jury as a matter of fact considered the two together as one instruction so as to cure such improper instruction.\nAppeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. M. L. McKinley, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1915.\nReversed and remanded.\nOpinion filed May 9, 1917.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Jennie Chapman, plaintiff, against the Chicago City Railway Company, defendant, to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff by being struck by defendant\u2019s street car at a street crossing. From a judgment for plaintiff for $3,500, defendant appeals.\nFranklin B. Hussey and Charles Le Roy Brown, for appellant; John R. Guilliams, of counsel.\nRichard J. Finn, for appellee.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols, XI to. XV. and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number,-"
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