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  "id": 5237893,
  "name": "Edmund D. Power v. Silas Watkins",
  "name_abbreviation": "Power v. Watkins",
  "decision_date": "1871-01",
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  "first_page": "380",
  "last_page": "380",
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      "cite": "58 Ill. 380"
    }
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill.",
    "id": 8772,
    "name": "Illinois Supreme Court"
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    "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": [
      "Edmund D. Power v. Silas Watkins."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Chief Justice Lawrence\ndelivered the opinion of the Court:\nThis was a prosecution for obstructing a highway, resulting in a verdict against defendant for $10.\nThe only grounds suggested for reversal are, that the last instruction for plaintiff should not have been given, and the last for defendant should have been. Plaintiffs instruction was, that a gateway built across the road, one half mile from the place of alleged obstruction, would not prove the public had abandoned the road. This was correct. The act of an individual can not divest the public of its rights, unless submitted to for such a period of time as to raise a fair presumption of abandonment.\nThe instruction asked for the defendant, and refused, was intended, as we construe it, to be substantially the reverse of that given for plaintiff, and was properly refused.\nThe judgment is affirmed.\nJudgment affirmed.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Chief Justice Lawrence"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Mr. S. S. Knowles, for the appellant.",
      "Messrs. Lacey & Wallace, and Mr. N. W. Branson, for the appellee."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Edmund D. Power v. Silas Watkins.\nHighways\u2014obstruction of by individuals\u2014effect thereof on the rights of the public. The act of au individual obstructing a public road, can not divest the public of its rights in respect to the road, unless submitted to for such a period of time as to raise a fair presumption of abandonment.\nAppeal from the Circuit Court of Menard county; the Hon. Charles Turner, Judge, presiding.\nMr. S. S. Knowles, for the appellant.\nMessrs. Lacey & Wallace, and Mr. N. W. Branson, for the appellee."
  },
  "file_name": "0380-01",
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