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  "id": 2831452,
  "name": "Reid, Murdoch & Company, Defendant in Error, v. Somerset Canning Company, Plaintiff in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "Reid, Murdoch & Co. v. Somerset Canning Co.",
  "decision_date": "1913-10-09",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 17,566",
  "first_page": "112",
  "last_page": "112",
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      "cite": "182 Ill. App. 112"
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
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    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Reid, Murdoch & Company, Defendant in Error, v. Somerset Canning Company, Plaintiff in Error."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Gridley\ndelivered the opinion of the court.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice Gridley"
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    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "William Ritchie and Sidney B. Meyer, for plaintiff in error.",
      "Colson & Johnson, for defendant in error."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Reid, Murdoch & Company, Defendant in Error, v. Somerset Canning Company, Plaintiff in Error.\nGen. No. 17,566.\n(Not to he reported in full.)\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Sales, \u00a7 77 \u2014when cannot be cancelled for failure to give shipping directions. Contract of sale, which did not contemplate immediate shipment, held not to justify seller in cancelling sale for failure of buyer to give immediate shipping directions.\n2. Sales, \u00a7 381*\u2014damages. When seller cancels contract, not duty of buyer to purchase elsewhere so as to minimize the loss where the buyer was justified in believing that seller would yet deliver.\nHitch, J., dissenting.\nError to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Charles N. Goodnow, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1911.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed October 9, 1913.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Reid, Murdoch & Company, a corporation, against Somerset Canning Company, a corporation, to recover damages for nondelivery of goods purchased by plaintiff from the defendant. From a judgment for plaintiff for four hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents, defendant brings error.\nWilliam Ritchie and Sidney B. Meyer, for plaintiff in error.\nColson & Johnson, for defendant in error.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XIV, same topic and section number."
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