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  "id": 2914062,
  "name": "Berz Company, Appellee, v. Peoples Gas Light & Coke Company, Appellant",
  "name_abbreviation": "Berz Co. v. Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co.",
  "decision_date": "1918-01-28",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 23,567",
  "first_page": "304",
  "last_page": "305",
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      "cite": "209 Ill. App. 304"
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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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  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Berz Company, Appellee, v. Peoples Gas Light & Coke Company, Appellant."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice Holdom\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\n2. Automobiles and garages, \u00a7 6 \u2014what is effect of owners of cars being in pari delicto. Where the parties, in an action to recover damages for injuries to plaintiff\u2019s automobile from a collision with defendant\u2019s automobile, are in pari delicto, the law will not afford either of them relief.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Presiding Justice Holdom"
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    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Meagher, Whitney, Ricks & Sullivan, for appellant; Oliver R. Barrett and Francis L. Daily, of counsel.",
      "Fin\u00edan H. Welch and William J. Lacey, for appellee."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Berz Company, Appellee, v. Peoples Gas Light & Coke Company, Appellant.\nGen. No. 23,567. (Not to be reported in full.)\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Automobiles and gabaqes, \u00a7 6 \u2014what Constitutes fatal variance in action for injury to automobile. Where plaintiff alleged ownership of a certain automobile, in an action to recover damages for injuries to same by a collision with defendant\u2019s automobile, and offered proof showing ownership in another, held that the variance was fatal to a recovery, notwithstanding there was no plea denying ownership in plaintiff.\nAppeal from the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Dennis W. Sullivan, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in this court at the October term, 1917.\nReversed with judgment of nil capiat.\nOpinion filed January 28, 1918.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Berz Company, a corporation, plaintiff, against Peoples G-as Light & Coke Company, a corporation, defendant, to recover damages for injuries to plaintiff\u2019s ambulance automobile from a collision with defendant\u2019s automobile. From a judgment for plaintiff for $750, defendant appeals.\nMeagher, Whitney, Ricks & Sullivan, for appellant; Oliver R. Barrett and Francis L. Daily, of counsel.\nFin\u00edan H. Welch and William J. Lacey, for appellee.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Yols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, game topic and section number.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
  },
  "file_name": "0304-01",
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  "last_page_order": 333
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