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  "id": 859996,
  "name": "Chicago West Division Railway Company v. Maria J. Bolton",
  "name_abbreviation": "Chicago West Division Railway Co. v. Bolton",
  "decision_date": "1890-06-30",
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  "first_page": "143",
  "last_page": "144",
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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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    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
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    "batch": "2018"
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  "casebody": {
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    "parties": [
      "Chicago West Division Railway Company v. Maria J. Bolton."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Gary, P. J.\nThis is an action to recover damages for a personal injury. The case made by the appellee, and of which she offered such evidence as warranted the jury, in the conflict of evidence, to find to be true, was that, being a passenger on the west-bound open car of the appellant, on Madison street, the car stopped for her to get off at the west side of Elizabeth street, and she, being on the south side of the car, and intending to go to her place of business on the south side of Madison street, opposite to the end of Elizabeth street\u2014 which ends at Madison street, and does not extend south of it\u2014alighted from the south side of the car and started to walk diagonally southeastwardly across Madison street and the south track of the appellant, when an east-bound car of the appellant carelessly ran her down, indicting upon her serious injury.\nTwo and a half pages of the abstract are occupied with instructions given at the request of the appellant, some of them more favorable than it was entitled to. Complaint is made that the court refused to instruct on the hypothesis \u2018\u2018that the plaintiff had no right to be where she was at the time of the accident,\u201d which is manifestly intended to raise the question whether she had a right to walk diagonally across the street. Until better instructed, we shall hold that to be no question at all. Also, that mere omission \u201c to perform any duty which it ought to perform, is not of itself sufficient to render the defendant liable.\u201d\nThis principle, in much more emphatic form, was given in another instruction. There is no error and the judgment-must be affirmed.\nJudgment affirmed.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Gary, P. J."
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    "attorneys": [
      "Messrs. W. B. Keep and Edmund Furthmann, for appellant.",
      "Mr. S. K. Dow, for appellee."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Chicago West Division Railway Company v. Maria J. Bolton.\nStreet Railroads\u2014Negligence\u2014Personal Injuries\u2014Evidence\u2014Instructions.\nIn an action to recover from a street railroad company for personal injuries alleged to have been suffered through its negligence, this court declines, the evidence being conflicting, to interfere with the verdict for the plaintiff.\n[Opinion filed June 30, 1890.]\nAppeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Richard S. Tuthill, Judge, presiding.\nMessrs. W. B. Keep and Edmund Furthmann, for appellant.\nMr. S. K. Dow, for appellee."
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  "file_name": "0143-01",
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