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  "id": 2918145,
  "name": "John Harms, Administrator, Appellant, v. Lee County Fair Association, Appellee",
  "name_abbreviation": "Harms v. Lee County Fair Ass'n",
  "decision_date": "1918-02-12",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 6,485",
  "first_page": "103",
  "last_page": "104",
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      "cite": "209 Ill. App. 103"
    }
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
  },
  "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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    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "John Harms, Administrator, Appellant, v. Lee County Fair Association, Appellee."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Niehaus\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\nAbstract of the Decision.\nTheatebs and shows, \u00a7 4 '\u2014when death of spectator at motor-dome is shown not to be due to negligence. In an action to recover for the death of a spectator of motorcycling in defendant fair association\u2019s motordome, due to a motorcycle rider being precipitated over the guardrail while deceased was standing on a walk at the top of the motordome at a place not reserved for spectators, evidence held insufficient to show that the motordome or motorcycle were defective or that the driver was incompetent, and that the death of deceased was not due to any negligence of defendant, there being evidence that some cigar ashes fell into the pit and got into the driver\u2019s eyes, causing him to lose control over the machine and to be hurled from it, causing the injuries.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice Niehaus"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "J. J. Ludens, for appellant.",
      "William L. Leech and Clyde Smith, for appellee."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "John Harms, Administrator, Appellant, v. Lee County Fair Association, Appellee.\nGen. No. 6,485. (Not to be reported in full.)\nAppeal from the Circuit Court of Lee county; the Hon. Richabd S. Fakkand, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in this court at the October term, 1917.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed February 12, 1918.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by John Harms, administrator of the estate of Albert Harms, deceased, plaintiff, against Lee County Fair Association, defendant, to recover damages for personal injuries resulting in death of plaintiff\u2019s intestate received while he was observing a motorcyclist riding in a motordome at defendant\u2019s fair. From a judgment for defendant for costs, plaintiff appeals.\nJ. J. Ludens, for appellant.\nWilliam L. Leech and Clyde Smith, for appellee.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative* Quarterly, same topic and section number."
  },
  "file_name": "0103-01",
  "first_page_order": 131,
  "last_page_order": 132
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