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  "id": 2895090,
  "name": "Gustav Baxtrom v. The Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company",
  "name_abbreviation": "Baxtrom v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.",
  "decision_date": "1886-05-15",
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  "first_page": "150",
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    "name_abbreviation": "Ill.",
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      "Gustav Baxtrom v. The Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company."
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        "text": "Mr. Justice Scott\ndelivered the opinion of the Court:\n\u2022 This action was brought by Gustav Baxtrom, in the Superior Court of Cook county, against the Chicago and Northwestern Bailway Company, and was to recover for personal injuries to plaintiff, alleged to have been caused by the negligent conduct of defendant in the management of one of its engines by the servants in charge. On the trial the coui't instructed the jury, as a matter of law, \u201cthere was not sufficient evidence to warrant a verdict for plaintiff, \u201d and directed the jury to find \u201cdefendant not guilty, \u201d which they did. The judgment rendered on the verdict for defendant, and against plaintiff, was afterwards affirmed in the Appellate Court for the First District, and plaintiff brings the case to this court on error.\nIt is obvious no writ of error will lie from this court to the Appellate Court in this case. The action is one sounding in damages, and the statute, (section 25 of the Appellate Court act,) provides that \u201cin all cases sounding in damages, wherein the judgment of the court below is less than one thousand dollars ($1000) exclusive of costs, and the judgment is affirmed or otherwise finally disposed of in the Appellate Court, the judgment * * * of the Appellate Court shall be final, and no appeal shall lie or writ of error be prosecuted therefrom,\u201d unless where, in'such cases, a majority of the judges of the Appellate Court shall be of opinion, and so certify, the case decided by them \u201cinvolves questions of law of such importance, either on account of principal or collateral interests, as that it should be passed upon by the Supreme Court.\u201d\nThe judgment in this case is less than $1000, exclusive of costs, and as no majority of the judges of the Appellate Court have made any certificate that would give this court jurisdiction, under the statute, to hear and determine the cause, the writ of error must be dismissed, which is done.\nWrit dismissed.",
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        "author": "Mr. Justice Scott"
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    "attorneys": [
      "Mr. H. 0. McDaid, for the plaintiff in error.",
      "Mr. B. G. Cook, for the defendant in error."
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    "head_matter": "Gustav Baxtrom v. The Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company.\nFiled at Ottawa May 15, 1886.\nAppeal\u2014as to amount involved\u2014in cases sounding in damages\u2014judgment for defendant. Where a judgment for the defendant, in an action on the case to recover damages for a personal injtn-y claimed to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant\u2019s servants, is affirmed by the Appellate Court, the judgment being for \u201cless than $1000, exclusive of costs,\u201d no appeal or writ of error lies to review the judgment of the Appellate Court, unless a majority of the judges of that court shall certify the case under the statute.\nWrit of Error to the Appellate Court for the First District;\u2014heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Bollin S. Williamson, Judge, presiding.\nMr. H. 0. McDaid, for the plaintiff in error.\nMr. B. G. Cook, for the defendant in error."
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  "last_page_order": 151
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