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  "id": 5200782,
  "name": "North Chicago St. R. R. Co. v. M. L. Wiswell",
  "name_abbreviation": "North Chicago St. R. R. v. Wiswell",
  "decision_date": "1897-01-21",
  "docket_number": "",
  "first_page": "443",
  "last_page": "444",
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      "cite": "68 Ill. App. 443"
    }
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
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  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
  },
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  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "North Chicago St. R. R. Co. v. M. L. Wiswell."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Gary\ndelivered the opinion of the Court.\nThe appellee has recovered a judgment for $5,000 damages for injuries sustained by him in attempting to board a car of the appellant.\nWe can not know what is the truth of the case, and the verdict of the jury upon the conflicting evidence must stand so far as relates to the question of negligence.\nThe appellant complains of the refusal of - two instructions, the first, in part, directing the jury in what order the questions in the case should be considered\u2014a matter with which the court had nothing to do; and the second\u2014 as it is recited in the abstract\u2014requires so much study to find out any meaning in it, that a jury could hardly have been enlightened by it. Altogether the appellant asked twenty-seven instructions, of which fourteen were given without modification, or with such only as is not complained of, except in striking out of one the direction as to the order of business, as before mentioned.\nAll the law of the case was given to the jury in varied phraseology.\nThe appellee was sixty-seven years old, and weighed two hundred and forty pounds. A younger and lighter man would soon have recovered from the broken leg, without permanent injury. Whatever may have lately grown to be the practice, five thousand dollars is not to be considered as the minimum of damages in actions against railways for negligence.\nIf within ten days the appellee remits one-half of the judgment, we will affirm the residue, otherwise .the judgment will be reversed and the cause remanded.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice Gary"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Egbert Jamieson and John A. Rose, attorneys for appellant.",
      "James B. McCracken and Albert M. Cross, attorneys for appellee."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "North Chicago St. R. R. Co. v. M. L. Wiswell.\n1. Instructions\u2014Not to Usurp the Province of the Jury.\u2014An instruction which directs the jury in what order the questions in the case should be considered, is properly refused.\n3. Damages\u2014$5,000 Held Excessive.\u2014A verdict for 05,000, rendered in favor of a man sixty-seven years old for injuries (a broken leg) sustained by him while attempting to board a street car, is excessive.\nTrespass on the Case, for personal injuries. Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. Philip Stein, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in this court at the October term, 1896.\nRemittitur ordered, etc.\nOpinion filed January 21, 1897.\nEgbert Jamieson and John A. Rose, attorneys for appellant.\nJames B. McCracken and Albert M. Cross, attorneys for appellee."
  },
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