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  "id": 5817946,
  "name": "Mrs. Charles Rockstroch, Appellee, v. Calumet & South Chicago Railway Company and Chicago City Railway Company, Appellants",
  "name_abbreviation": "Rockstroch v. Calumet & South Chicago Railway Co.",
  "decision_date": "1918-04-16",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 23,314",
  "first_page": "250",
  "last_page": "251",
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      "cite": "210 Ill. App. 250"
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    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
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    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Mrs. Charles Rockstroch, Appellee, v. Calumet & South Chicago Railway Company and Chicago City Railway Company, Appellants."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mk Justice McDonald\ndelivered the opinion of the court.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mk Justice McDonald"
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    "attorneys": [
      "William H. Symmes and Frank L. Kriete, for appellants; J. R. Cuilliams and William C. McHenry, of counsel.",
      "Riohberg, Ickes, Davies & Lord, for appellee; Morgan L. Davies and John S. Lord, of counsel."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Mrs. Charles Rockstroch, Appellee, v. Calumet & South Chicago Railway Company and Chicago City Railway Company, Appellants.\nGen. No. 23,314.\n(Not to he reported in full.)\nAbstract of the Decision.\nCabbiebs, \u00a7 476 \u2014when verdict for plaintiff in action for injuries received while alighting from car not sustained 6y evidence. In an action by a street car passenger to recover for personal injuries received while alighting from a street car where the verdict was based upon plaintiff\u2019s unsupported testimony that she was injured by the sudden starting of the car while attempting to alight therefrom at a street intersection, but the evidence was undisputed that she was picked up near the middle of the next block at a considerable distance from where she claimed to have fallen, and plaintiff became unconscious immediately after the fall, and there was no evidence that plaintiff was dragged any distance, evidence held insufficient to sustain the verdict for plaintiff and to show that she stepped off the moving car in the middle of the block.\nAppeal from the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. William N. Gemmill, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1917.\nReversed with finding of facts.\nOpinion filed April 16, 1918.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Mrs. Charles Bockstroch, plaintiff, against Calumet & South Chicago Railway. Company and Chicago City Railway Company, defendants, to recover for personal injuries sustained while a passenger in a car operated by the defendants. From a judgment for plaintiff for $450, defendants appeal.\nWilliam H. Symmes and Frank L. Kriete, for appellants; J. R. Cuilliams and William C. McHenry, of counsel.\nRiohberg, Ickes, Davies & Lord, for appellee; Morgan L. Davies and John S. Lord, of counsel.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
  },
  "file_name": "0250-01",
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  "last_page_order": 277
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