{
  "id": 2915427,
  "name": "Frank Kingsley, Administrator, Appellee, v. Farmers Lumber & Grain Company, Appellant",
  "name_abbreviation": "Kingsley v. Farmers Lumber & Grain Co.",
  "decision_date": "1918-02-12",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 6,458",
  "first_page": "38",
  "last_page": "40",
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      "cite": "209 Ill. App. 38"
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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": "2023-07-14T15:09:41.322311+00:00",
  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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    "parties": [
      "Frank Kingsley, Administrator, Appellee, v. Farmers Lumber & Grain Company, Appellant."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Dibell\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Appear and bbrob, \u00a7 1672 \u2014when sufficiency of declaration cannot be questioned on appeal. The sufficiency of a declaration cannot be questioned on appeal after defendant pleaded over upon overruling of its demurrer to the declaration and made no motion in arrest of judgment, and the supposed defects in' the declaration were merely technical.\n2. Negligence, \u00a7 25*\u2014when duty lies upon owner of land to heep premises in safe condition for benefit of children. The occupant of land is under no obligation to strangers to keep his premises in a safe condition for the benefit of those who come upon his premises for their own pleasure without his invitation, except as to a child of tender years if the things causing the injury have been left exposed and unguarded and are such as to appeal to his childish curiosity and instincts.\n3. Negligence, \u00a7 45*\u2014what care required of owner to heep premises having upon them dangerous attractions for children safe. Unguarded premises having upon them dangerous attractions to a child of tender years are treated as holding out implied invitations to such a child, and the occupant of such premises must use ordinary care to keep them in safe condition.\n4. Negligence, \u00a7 45*\u2014when evidence shows that children might reasonably be expected near shaft in elevator. Evidence held sufficient to warrant the finding that defendant might reasonably expect children near the power shaft, by which plaintiff\u2019s intestate was injured, in defendant\u2019s grain elevator, and in sight of such shaft, and a child to be attracted to the shaft from a runway into the elevator, from a place where the child might reasonably be expected to be, within the meaning of the rule that a dangerous thing must be so located as to attract a child from some place where it might be expected to be in order to charge the occupant of the premises with liability for injuries to such child.\n5. Negligence, \u00a7 45*\u2014when evidence shows that power shaft is attractive to childish instincts. Evidence held sufficient to warrant the finding that a power shaft, on which plaintiff\u2019s intestate was injured, in defendant\u2019s grain elevator was attractive to childish instincts and that plaintiff\u2019s intestate was attracted to it by his childish instincts when he was at a place where children were permitted to be, and must have been expected by defendant to be, namely, a runway into the elevator.\n6. Instbuctions, \u00a7 20*\u2014when instruction that rulings of court in refusing to direct verdict should not be considered is incompetent. An instruction that the jury should not consider certain rulings of the court in refusing to direct a verdict for the defendant, as containing an intimation that defendant was liable, was not competent unless it should be made to appear that the rulings were made in the presence and hearing of the jury.\n7. Instructions, \u00a7 151*\u2014when properly refused. \u25a0 Proffered instructions covered by the main charge are properly refused.\nNiehaus, J., took no part.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice Dibell"
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    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Joseph W. Maple and Dailey & Miller, for appellant.",
      "Weil & Bartley and Jesse Black, Jr., for appellee."
    ],
    "corrections": "",
    "head_matter": "Frank Kingsley, Administrator, Appellee, v. Farmers Lumber & Grain Company, Appellant.\nGen. No. 6,458. (Not to be reported in full.)\nAppeal from the Circuit Court of Peoria county; the Hon. John M. Niehatjs, Judge, presiding. Certiorari denied by Supreme Court (making opinion final).\nHeard in this court at the October term, 1917.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed February 12, 1918.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Frank Kingsley, administrator of the estate of Cloyd Kingsley, deceased, plaintiff, against Farmers Lumber & Grain Company, defendant, to recover damages for the death of plaintiff\u2019s intestate. From a judgment for plaintiff for $5,000, defendant appeals.\nDefendant\u2019s grain elevator and engine room 20 feet distant were connected by an iron shaft, used to convey power to the elevator, resting on supports every 8 feet, and such shaft was about 2 feet and 3 inches from the ground. The intestate, a child 8 years and 3 months old, was killed while playing with the shaft by his overcoat becoming caught in it and whirling him around. The shaft was not observable from the street but was from a runway into the elevator up which teams drove from the street, the runway being within 6 feet of the shaft, and the revolutions of the shaft being\u2019 observable for 15 feet.\nJoseph W. Maple and Dailey & Miller, for appellant.\nWeil & Bartley and Jesse Black, Jr., for appellee.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
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  "file_name": "0038-01",
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  "last_page_order": 68
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