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  "name": "Sanfrid Harnstrom, Appellee, v. Anderson Electric Car Company, Appellant",
  "name_abbreviation": "Harnstrom v. Anderson Electric Car Co.",
  "decision_date": "1918-04-29",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 23,888",
  "first_page": "395",
  "last_page": "396",
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    "id": 8837,
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    "name_long": "Illinois",
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    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Sanfrid Harnstrom, Appellee, v. Anderson Electric Car Company, Appellant."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice McSurely\ndelivered the opinion of the court.",
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    "attorneys": [
      "M. M. Jacobs, for appellant.",
      "Habry J. Berman, for appellee."
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    "head_matter": "Sanfrid Harnstrom, Appellee, v. Anderson Electric Car Company, Appellant.\nGen. No. 23,888.\n(Not to he reported in full.)\nAppeal from the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. John Richardson, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in this court at the October term, 1917.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed April 29, 1918.\nStatement of the Case.\nReplevin by Sanfrid Harnstrom, plaintiff, against Anderson Electric Car Company, defendant, to recover possession of an automobile. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Bailment, \u00a7 11*\u2014when mutual benefit bailment of automobile is created making bailee liable for ordinary negligence of servants. Where, in connection with the contract of sale of an automobile, the seller agrees to give the buyer free monthly inspection service, in rendering such service the seller is not performing a gratuitous act, and the relation between the seller and buyer is not that of bailor and bailee, but there is a mutual benefit bailment under which the seller becomes liable for Injury to the car by ordinary negligence of its servants while driving the car to the seller\u2019s shops for the purpose of rendering the service.\n2. Automobiles and garages, \u00a7 6*\u2014when collision between electrie car and gas car shown to be due to negligent operation of former. Evidence held to show that damage to an electric auto- \u2022 mobile colliding with a gas car as the driver of the electric was attempting to get into a line of moving cars was due to the negligent handling of the electric.\n3. Replevin, \u00a7 135*\u2014when damages for wrongful detention of automobile not excessive. In an action of replevin to recover possession of an automobile, a verdict of $100 damages for wrongful detention of the car is not excessive where the record shows that plaintiff was in the real estate business and used the car extensively in making trips in the conduct of his business, and was deprived of its use for more than three months.\n4. Automobiles and garages, \u00a7 5 \u2014when immaterial that defendant had right to detain automobile for payment of repairs. In an action of replevin to recover possession of an automobile, where it appears from the affidavit of merits and the evidence that the car was being held for the payment of the cost of repairs caused by defendant\u2019s negligence, it is immaterial that defendant had a right to detain it for the payment of a small hill covering the cost of an appliance added to the machine under authority from the plaintiff.\nM. M. Jacobs, for appellant.\nHabry J. Berman, for appellee.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
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