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  "id": 2925786,
  "name": "Walter Neske, Defendant in Error, v. Western Union Telegraph Company, Plaintiff in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "Neske v. Western Union Telegraph Co.",
  "decision_date": "1917-06-27",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 21,783",
  "first_page": "29",
  "last_page": "30",
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      "cite": "207 Ill. App. 29"
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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": "2023-07-14T19:52:34.192092+00:00",
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    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Walter Neske, Defendant in Error, v. Western Union Telegraph Company, Plaintiff in Error."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice Goodwin\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\n3. Telegraphs and telephones, \u00a7 37* \u2014 when contributory negligence of plaintiff sending telegram not shown. In an action to recover for damages caused by the negligent transmission of a telegram, evidence held not to show contributory negligence of plaintiff.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Presiding Justice Goodwin"
      }
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    "attorneys": [
      "West & Eckhart, for plaintiff in error.",
      "Joseph R. Burres, for defendant in error."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Walter Neske, Defendant in Error, v. Western Union Telegraph Company, Plaintiff in Error.\nGen. No. 21,783.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Telegraphs and telephones, \u00a7 37 \u2014 when evidence sustains verdict in action for negligence in transmission of telegram. In an action to recover damages for negligence in the transmission of a telegram, evidence held to support a verdict for plaintiff.\n2. Telegraphs and telephones, \u00a7 31* \u2014 when evidence shows that damages were direct result of negligence in transmission of telegram. In an action to recover damages for negligence in transmitting a telegram, evidence held sufficient to show that the amount of the verdict for plaintiff was for the damages which he had suffered as a direct result of defendant\u2019s negligence, and that such damages were of the sort which might reasonably have been supposed to have been in the contemplation of the sender of the message and the telegraph company at the time the message was sent.\nError to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Patrick B. Flanagan, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1915.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed June 27, 1917.\nRehearing denied July -13, 1917.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Walter Neslce, plaintiff, against the Western Union Telegraph Company, a corporation, defendant, to recover damages alleged to have been caused by negligence in transmitting a telegram. To reverse a judgment for plaintiff for $53.50, defendant prosecutes this writ of error.\nWest & Eckhart, for plaintiff in error.\nJoseph R. Burres, for defendant in error.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
  },
  "file_name": "0029-01",
  "first_page_order": 55,
  "last_page_order": 56
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