{
  "id": 2676531,
  "name": "International Text Book Company, Appellant, v. William Busick, Appellee",
  "name_abbreviation": "International Text Book Co. v. Busick",
  "decision_date": "1908-09-12",
  "docket_number": "",
  "first_page": "417",
  "last_page": "418",
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      "type": "official",
      "cite": "143 Ill. App. 417"
    }
  ],
  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
  },
  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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    "batch": "2018"
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    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "International Text Book Company, Appellant, v. William Busick, Appellee."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Creighton\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\nThis was a suit commenced before a justice of the peace of St. Clair county, by appellant against appellee, to recover a balance of $31.75, claimed by appellant to be due it from appellee upon a contract for a scholarship in the draftsmen\u2019s course of instruction, in appellant\u2019s correspondence schools, and for a drawing outfit. From the judgment rendered in the justice\u2019s court the case was appealed to the Circuit Court, where it was. tried de novo, resulting in a verdict and judgment in favor of appellee. From this judgment appellant in due form prosecuted an appeal to this court, assigned errors upon the record, and filed abstract and brief in accordance with the requirements of the law and the rules of this court.\nAppellee has filed no brief, and has wholly failed to comply with the law and the rules of this court with respect thereto.\nThe judgment of the Circuit Court is reversed under rule 27, and the cause remanded.\nReversed and remanded.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice Creighton"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Hall & Dane and Eugene W. Miller, for appellant; David C. Harrington, of counsel.",
      "No briefs filed by appellee."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "International Text Book Company, Appellant, v. William Busick, Appellee.\nAppeals and errors\u2014when pro forma reversal will he awarded. Failure of an appellee to file a brief pursuant to rule of court justifies a pro forma reversal.\nAction commenced before justice of the peace. Appeal from the Circuit Court of St. Clair county; the Hon. R. D. W. Holder, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in this court at the February term, 1908.\nReversed and remanded.\nOpinion filed September 12, 1908.\nHall & Dane and Eugene W. Miller, for appellant; David C. Harrington, of counsel.\nNo briefs filed by appellee."
  },
  "file_name": "0417-01",
  "first_page_order": 435,
  "last_page_order": 436
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