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  "id": 5181222,
  "name": "Lake Erie & W. R. R. Co. v. Jacob V. Otto",
  "name_abbreviation": "Lake Erie & W. R. R. v. Otto",
  "decision_date": "1896-05-16",
  "docket_number": "",
  "first_page": "36",
  "last_page": "37",
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      "cite": "65 Ill. App. 36"
    }
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  "court": {
    "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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    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Lake Erie & W. R. R. Co. v. Jacob V. Otto."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice Pleasants\ndelivered the opinion of the Court.\nCase against appellant before a justice of the peace for damages by the killing of two pigs of appellee that got on its track through a defective fence. A tender made was rejected and fifty cents more recovered on the trial. In the Circuit Court on appeal a jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for $34\u2014being $9 for the damages, exceeding the amount tendered by $2, and $25 for attorney\u2019s fees.\nWitnesses, like the parties, differed about the value of the pigs. Hone testified to the \u201c market \u201d value, or that there was any market value for such pigs at the time they were killed. Their estimates were of the reasonable value, and their reasons were given; of the force of which the jury was to judge. ' Their finding was for about the average amount sworn to.\nBut one witness was sworn as to the attorney\u2019s fees, and we understand he fixed the amount found as the reasonable fee for services on the trials in the two courts. It does not raise the question of the right under the statute to recover for services preceding the actual commencement of the suit, and we intimate no opinion upon it.\nThe court modified one and refused another instruction asked upon the supposition that the tender was sufficient. Had they been given as asked they would have availed nothing, since the finding was that it was not sufficient. The judgment will be affirmed.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Presiding Justice Pleasants"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "A. E. DeMange, attorney for appellant.",
      "J. J. Morrissey, attorney for appellee."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Lake Erie & W. R. R. Co. v. Jacob V. Otto.\nI. Attorney Fees\u2014Reccwsn/ of.\u2014The statute authorizes the recovery of reasonable attorney\u2019s fees in any court wherein suit is brought against a railroad company for killing domestic animals.\nAction for Killing Domestic Animals.\u2014Appeal from the Circuit Court of McLean County; the Hon. Thomas F. Tipton, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the November term, 1895.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed May 16, 1896.\nA. E. DeMange, attorney for appellant.\nJ. J. Morrissey, attorney for appellee."
  },
  "file_name": "0036-01",
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