{
  "id": 2451839,
  "name": "Chicago & Alton R. R. Co. v. Theresa Fell",
  "name_abbreviation": "Chicago & Alton R. R. v. Fell",
  "decision_date": "1897-06-16",
  "docket_number": "",
  "first_page": "89",
  "last_page": "91",
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      "cite": "71 Ill. App. 89"
    }
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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": {
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    "parties": [
      "Chicago & Alton R. R. Co. v. Theresa Fell."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Opinion pee Cubiam.\nAppellee recovered a judgment in the sum of $7,000, as damages for personal injuries received by being struck by an engine while she was attempting to cross the track of the company\u2019s railroad on Washington street in Bloomingr ton.\nThis is an appeal from the judgment.\nWhile the point is the subject of much conflicting testimony, yet we incline to the opinion we ought to accept the verdict of the jury as decisive of the charge that the engineer and fireman in charge of the engine at the time were guilty of negligence which contributed to the appellee\u2019s injury. But we are unable to agree that it appeared from the proofs the plaintiff was in the exercise of ordinary care for her own safety at the time.\nWhen injured she was endeavoring to cross the tracks of the appellant railroad at the crossing of Washington street in Bloomington.\nAppellee and her husband came from their home to Bloomington in a buggy with the intention of going to the depot, where she expected to meet her mother who was 'to arrive on an incoming train.\nThe horse they were driving- became restless and frightened just before they reached the crossing of the railroad and Washington street, and appellee alighted from the buggy in the street and her husband turned the horse about and proceeded to drive him to a quieter portion of the city while she pursued her way to the depot on foot.\nShe passed from the street to the sidewalk and thence along the walk to the right of way of the railroad company with the design of walking across the track and into the depot.\nShe walked to the track and attempted to step over the rail nearest her but the engine was there at so near the same instant that it struck her foot before it fairly rested upon the ground.\nShe seemed absorbed in thought of other affairs than such as related to her surroundings, and pursued her way as though oblivious to things about her.\nThe testimony, even if that of the witnesses for the appellant company lie excluded from consideration, so strongly antagonizes the position that she was in the exercise of ordinary care that we are constrained to reverse the judgment.\nIn view of the fact that the case must be again heard we refrain from commenting in detail upon the testimony.\nIn order that the truth upon the question of appellee\u2019s conduct on the occasion in question may be more fully disclosed, and also the truth upon all other issues of fact involved may be again submitted to the consideration and judgment of another jury, we will remand the case.\nJudgment reversed and cause remanded.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Opinion pee Cubiam."
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    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Wm. Beown and J. E. Pollock, attorneys for appellant.",
      "Fifee & Babby, attorneys for appellee."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Chicago & Alton R. R. Co. v. Theresa Fell.\n1. Verdicts\u2014Not Sustained by the Evidence.\u2014This court is unable to agree that it appeared from the proofs that the plaintiff was in the exercise of ordinary care for her own safety at the time she was injured, and feels constrained to reverse the judgment.\nTrespass on the Case, for personal injuries. Appeal from the Circuit Court of McLean County; the Hon. Thomas F. Tipton, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in this court at the May term, 1896.\nReversed and remanded.\nOpinion filed June 16, 1897.\nWm. Beown and J. E. Pollock, attorneys for appellant.\nFifee & Babby, attorneys for appellee."
  },
  "file_name": "0089-01",
  "first_page_order": 87,
  "last_page_order": 89
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