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  "name": "J. W. Pierce, Plaintiff in Error, v. Southern Railway Company, Defendant in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "Pierce v. Southern Railway Co.",
  "decision_date": "1917-10-24",
  "docket_number": "",
  "first_page": "553",
  "last_page": "554",
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    "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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    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "J. W. Pierce, Plaintiff in Error, v. Southern Railway Company, Defendant in Error."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Boggs\ndelivered the opinion of the court.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice Boggs"
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    "attorneys": [
      "Clyde D. Miller, for plaintiff in error.",
      "Kramer, Kramer & Campbell and R H. Wiechert, for defendant in error; Edward P. Humphrey, of counsel."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "J. W. Pierce, Plaintiff in Error, v. Southern Railway Company, Defendant in Error.\n(Not to he reported in full.)\nError to the Circuit Court of St. Clair county; the Hon. George . A. Crow, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the March term, 1917.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed October 24, 1917.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by J. W. Pierce, plaintiff,\" against the Southern Railway Company, defendant, to recover damages for the alleged burning of plaintiff\u2019s residence through defendant\u2019s negligence. From a judgment for defendant, on a directed verdict at the close of plaintiff\u2019s evidence, plaintiff brings error.\nAbstract of the Decision.\nRailroads, \u00a7 921 \u2014 when evidence that sparlcs were seen coming out of smolcestaclc of engine is properly excluded in action for loss \u25a0 of property by fire. Testimony by a witness that he saw, on the night plaintiff\u2019s house was burned, sparks coming out of the smokestack of a certain railroad engine a mile away, held to be properly excluded, in an action against the railroad company to recover damages for such burning, where the evidence did not show whether the train testified to was on defendant\u2019s track, or had passed, or was going in the direction of plaintiff\u2019s property.\nClyde D. Miller, for plaintiff in error.\nKramer, Kramer & Campbell and R H. Wiechert, for defendant in error; Edward P. Humphrey, of counsel.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
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