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  "name": "City of Chicago v. William Torgerson",
  "name_abbreviation": "City of Chicago v. Torgerson",
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    "name_abbreviation": "Ill.",
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    "name": "Illinois Supreme Court"
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    "name": "Ill."
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    "parties": [
      "City of Chicago v. William Torgerson."
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      {
        "text": "Per Curiam :\nThe only question presented by this record is, the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict. There seems to be no doubt that appellee was injured by the fall; and whether his leg was broken, was a question upon which there was a conflict in the testimony, and the jury believed that of the surgeon who said it was, as they undoubtedly might, if it was more satisfactory than that of the other physicians. It is the province of the jury to weigh and consider the evidence and give it such weight as they think it entitled to receive. Having done so in this conflict of the testimony, ive. feel no disposition to disturb their finding,'as we think it was fully justified by the proof.\nThe judgment of the court below is therefore affirmed.\nJudgment affirmed.",
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    "attorneys": [
      "Mr. I. N. 'Stiles, for the appellant.",
      "Messrs. RuNYAN, Ayery, Loomis & Comstock, for the appellee."
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    "head_matter": "City of Chicago v. William Torgerson.\nNew trial \u2014 verdict against the evidence. -lii this case the verdict of the jury is regarded as fully sustained by the evidence.\nAppeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. HeNRY Booth, Judge, presiding.\nThis was an action brought by Torgerson against the city of Chicago, to recover damages for the breaking of his legj occasioned, as alleged, by a defective sidewalk in said city. The plaintiff recovered a judgment for $400, to reverse which the defendant appeals.\nMr. I. N. 'Stiles, for the appellant.\nMessrs. RuNYAN, Ayery, Loomis & Comstock, for the appellee."
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