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  "name": "Henry Felau, Appellee, v. Lake Sand Company, Appellant",
  "name_abbreviation": "Felau v. Lake Sand Co.",
  "decision_date": "1918-04-16",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 23,255",
  "first_page": "244",
  "last_page": "245",
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    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
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    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
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    "name_long": "Illinois",
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    "parties": [
      "Henry Felau, Appellee, v. Lake Sand Company, Appellant."
    ],
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      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice McDonald\ndelivered the opinion of the court.",
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    "attorneys": [
      "Winston, Payne, Strawn & Shaw, for appellant; John D. Black and Charles J. McFadden, of counsel.",
      "Henry B. Bathbone, for appellee."
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    "head_matter": "Henry Felau, Appellee, v. Lake Sand Company, Appellant.\nGen. No. 23,255.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Appeal and ebbob, \u00a7 1411 \u2014when finding not disturbed. A finding, in a negligence case, based upon conflicting evidence, will not be disturbed on appeal.\n2. Damages, \u00a7 175*\u2014when evidence as to financial condition of plaintiff is improper. It is prejudicial and reversible error, in an action for personal injuries, for plaintiff\u2019s attending physician to testify as to plaintiff\u2019s impecunious condition and to state that plaintiff had always been a pensioner of his, and he never had received pay for any services performed.\n3. Tbial, \u00a7 124*\u2014when argument of counsel constitutes reversible error. It is prejudicial and reversible error, in a personal injury case, for counsel for plaintiff, in attempting in his argument to explain the visit of the engineer in control of the device, and through whose alleged negligence plaintiff claimed to have been injured, to the office of plaintiff\u2019s counsel during the course of the trial \u25a0 and conference with the latter, before he was called upon to testify on behalf of defendant, and his failure to call the engineer as a witness, to state that the engineer had a deep motive, and he did not think that it would be fair to put him on the stand and ask him to \u201cincriminate\u201d himself, and after objection, in stating that by the use of the word \u201cincriminate\u201d he did not mean anything criminal, that the engineer must have had a deep motive and that it was not human nature for a man to take the stand and say, \u201cyes, it was my fault for crippling a human being for the rest of his life,\u201d and asking whether he should have asked the engineer to say that, and, in discussing the pain and suffering endured by plaintiff while being treated by his physician, to ask the jury if they did not think that plaintiff suffered intense pain when he had pieces of bone taken from his leg and in stating that the work was done without the humane office of an anaesthetic.\nAppeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Os cab M. Tobbison, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1917.\nReversed and remanded.\nOpinion filed April 16, 1918.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Henry Felau, plaintiff, against Lake Sand Company, a corporation, defendant, to recover for personal injuries. From a judgment for $11,500 for plaintiff, defendant appeals.\nWinston, Payne, Strawn & Shaw, for appellant; John D. Black and Charles J. McFadden, of counsel.\nHenry B. Bathbone, for appellee.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vole. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
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