{
  "id": 2838534,
  "name": "Margaret A. Pottinger, Defendant in Error, v. Gottlieb Erhardt, Plaintiff in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "Pottinger v. Erhardt",
  "decision_date": "1913-11-03",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 18,167",
  "first_page": "169",
  "last_page": "169",
  "citations": [
    {
      "type": "official",
      "cite": "183 Ill. App. 169"
    }
  ],
  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
  },
  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
  },
  "cites_to": [],
  "analysis": {
    "cardinality": 127,
    "char_count": 1383,
    "ocr_confidence": 0.528,
    "sha256": "c8ed5b45ed77d34f019c2e7a943213d54f5d008efcddb2cc55c3bd57137c7de7",
    "simhash": "1:ac56c02dc10ea059",
    "word_count": 243
  },
  "last_updated": "2023-07-14T19:57:27.806602+00:00",
  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
  },
  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Margaret A. Pottinger, Defendant in Error, v. Gottlieb Erhardt, Plaintiff in Error."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Smith\ndelivered the opinion of the court.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice Smith"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Louis Ziv, for plaintiff in error.",
      "William E. Cloyes, for defendant in error."
    ],
    "corrections": "",
    "head_matter": "Margaret A. Pottinger, Defendant in Error, v. Gottlieb Erhardt, Plaintiff in Error.\nGen. No. 18,167.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Frauds, Statute of, \u00a7 77 \u2014sufficient if lease is signed by lessee only. In an action for rent a lease signed by the lessee, which does not appear to have been signed by the lessor, is not within the statute of frauds, requiring instruments relating to a, term of more than one year to be signed by the party to be charged.\n2. Judgments, \u00a7. 61 \u2014when judgment by confession will not be vacated. Where a lessee petitions to vacate a judgment by confession for rent on the ground that the lease signed by the lessee was not signed by the lessor ai^d was within the statute of frauds, such defense is of no avail where the lessee had taken possession under the lease.\nError to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. James C. Martin, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the March term, 1912.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed November 3, 1913.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Margaret A. Pottinger against Gottlieb Erhardt for rent under a lease. From a judgment by confession in favor of plaintiff, defendant brings error.\nLouis Ziv, for plaintiff in error.\nWilliam E. Cloyes, for defendant in error.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XIV, same topic and section number."
  },
  "file_name": "0169-01",
  "first_page_order": 191,
  "last_page_order": 191
}