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  "id": 2916546,
  "name": "John Burns, by his father and next friend, John Burns, Appellee, v. Chicago Railways Company et al., Receivers, Appellants",
  "name_abbreviation": "Burns v. Chicago Railways Co.",
  "decision_date": "1917-12-03",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 23,316",
  "first_page": "295",
  "last_page": "296",
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      "cite": "208 Ill. App. 295"
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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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    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
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    "parties": [
      "John Burns, by his father and next friend, John Burns, Appellee, v. Chicago Railways Company et al., Receivers, Appellants."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Presidihg Justice Holdom\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\n2. Carriers, \u00a7 476 \u2014when evidence supports verdict in action for injuries. In an action to recover for personal injuries received in attempting to board a street car, evidence held to support a verdict for plaintiff.\n3. Corporations\u2014when\u25a0 original declaration considered as part of allegations against receivers substituted as parties. The original declaration in an action against a street railway company is to be included as a part of the allegations against the receivers of such company where, as amended, it stands against the receivers in place of the company.\n4. Pleading, \u00a7 243*\u2014when order of amendment includes all pleadings. An order of amendment in an action against a street railway company which provides that \u201call papers and proceedings herein be amended\u201d by making certain persons, stated to be receivers of such company, party defendants, is sufficiently broad to include the amendment of all the papers then on file, pleas as well as declaration.\n5. Carriers, \u00a7 464*-\u2014propriety of rulings on. evidence in action by passenger for injuries. In an action by a passenger to recover for personal injuries received in boarding a street car, rulings of the court as to the admission and exclusion of evidence held not erroneous.\n6. Damages, \u00a7 142*\u2014when not excessive. In an action to recover for personal injuries, a verdict for $2,500 is not excessive where the evidence shows that plaintiff suffered painful injuries necessitating an operation and his remaining in the hospital for 10 days, that he suffered much pain and had to return to the hospital a month later for further treatment, necessitating the use of an anassthetic, and that he suffers from headache and an ear discharge and is somewhat deaf.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Presidihg Justice Holdom"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Frank L. Kriete, for appellants; J. R. Guilliams and Thomas J. Symmes, of counsel.",
      "George E. Gorman and William B. Bauer, for appellee."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "John Burns, by his father and next friend, John Burns, Appellee, v. Chicago Railways Company et al., Receivers, Appellants.\nGen. No. 23,316.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Corporations, \u00a7 573 \u2014what is effect of substitution of receivers as parties for corporation. Where, in an action against a street railway company, the plaintiff amends his proceedings by substituting as defendants the receivers of the street railway company, the railway company is automatically eliminated from the case and it is not error to overrule its motions to instruct a finding in its favor or to arrest the judgment.\nAppeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Joseph Sabath, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the March term, 1917.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed December 3, 1917.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by John Burns, a minor, by his father and n\u00e9xt friend, John Burns, plaintiff, against the Chicago Railways Company and Henry A. Blair and John M. Roach, as receivers of Chicago Railways Company, defendants, to recover for personal injuries received while attempting to board a street car. From a verdict and judgment for plaintiff for $2,500, defendants appeal.\nFrank L. Kriete, for appellants; J. R. Guilliams and Thomas J. Symmes, of counsel.\nGeorge E. Gorman and William B. Bauer, for appellee.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number\u00bb"
  },
  "file_name": "0295-01",
  "first_page_order": 319,
  "last_page_order": 320
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