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  "id": 3020086,
  "name": "George F. Patterson, Administrator, Defendant in Error, v. William J. Jackson, Receiver, Plaintiff in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "Patterson v. Jackson",
  "decision_date": "1918-07-25",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 6,480",
  "first_page": "646",
  "last_page": "647",
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      "cite": "211 Ill. App. 646"
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    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
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    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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    "parties": [
      "George F. Patterson, Administrator, Defendant in Error, v. William J. Jackson, Receiver, Plaintiff in Error."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Niehaus\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\n2. Cokoners, \u00a7 3 \u2014 what is not within province of jury. It is not within the province of the coroner\u2019s jury to fix the civil liability of any one growing out of an accident resulting in the death of an injured person.\n3. Evidence, \u00a7 232* \u2014 what finding in coroner's verdict is inadmissible in action against railroad company for death of pedestrian. In an action against a railroad company to recover for the death of a pedestrian who was struck by one of defendant\u2019s trains as it was passing through a village, that part of the coroner\u2019s verdict containing a finding that the signal service was out of repair and that the speed of the train was excessive and in violation of the village ordinance, was inadmissible.\n4. Coroners, \u00a7 3*- \u2014 what is proper finding at inquest over body of person hilled by railroad train. Where a person is killed accidentally by being run over or struck by a railroad train, the legitimate object of the coroner\u2019s inquest is fulfilled by a finding that the death of deceased was caused by being run over or struck by a railroad train, without adjudicating whether it was due to any one\u2019s negligence.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice Niehaus"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Free P. Morris and Roscoe C. South, for plaintiff in error; Homer T. Dick and W. R. Hunter, of counsel.",
      "Dyer & Dyer and Saum & Malo, for defendant in error."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "George F. Patterson, Administrator, Defendant in Error, v. William J. Jackson, Receiver, Plaintiff in Error.\nGen. No. 6,480.\n(Not to he reported in full.)\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Municipal corporations, \u00a7 107 - \u2014 what is sufficient proof of ordinance. Section 4 of article 5 of the Cities and Villages Act (J. & A. T 1337), relating to proof of ordinances, is complied with where an ordinance printed in a hook contained in the revised ordinances of a village, and purporting to be published by authority of the board of trustees of the village and shown by the certificate of the village clerk, under the corporate seal of the village, to have been so published, is introduced in evidence.\nError to the Circuit Court of Iroquois county; the Hon. Frank L. Hooper, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1917.\nReversed and remanded.\nOpinion filed July 25, 1918.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by George F. Patterson,-as administrator of the estate of William Harry Penry, deceased, plaintiff, against William J. Jackson, as receiver of Chicago & Eastern Hlinois Railroad Company, defendant, to recover damages alleged to have been sustained by the widow and next of kin of deceased because of the death of Penry, due to the negligence of defendant in operation of one of its railroad trains. From a judgment for plaintiff for $4,500, defendant brings error.\nFree P. Morris and Roscoe C. South, for plaintiff in error; Homer T. Dick and W. R. Hunter, of counsel.\nDyer & Dyer and Saum & Malo, for defendant in error.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
  },
  "file_name": "0646-01",
  "first_page_order": 700,
  "last_page_order": 701
}
