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  "id": 2832344,
  "name": "A. R. Fifer, Defendant in Error, v. Hyman Lewis and Louis Redman, Plaintiffs in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "Fifer v. Lewis",
  "decision_date": "1913-11-24",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 18,289",
  "first_page": "349",
  "last_page": "350",
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      "cite": "183 Ill. App. 349"
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
  },
  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
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    "parties": [
      "A. R. Fifer, Defendant in Error, v. Hyman Lewis and Louis Redman, Plaintiffs in Error."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Brown\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\nAbstract of the Decision.\nBrokers, \u00a7 48 \u2014when principal effecting sale is liable for commissions. A broker secured a purchaser and the owner not agreeing to the purchase price in the contract of sale prepared by the broker refused to sign the contract and terminated the negotiations. The owner subsequently sought out the purchaser and made a similar contract with him in a third person\u2019s name, providing for the repudiated purchase price. The third person then assigned the contract to the purchaser. Held, the owner was liable to his broker for commissions.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice Brown"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "William Reeda and Samuel Micon, for plaintiffs in error.",
      "Max M. Grossman, for defendant in error."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "A. R. Fifer, Defendant in Error, v. Hyman Lewis and Louis Redman, Plaintiffs in Error.\nGen. No. 18,289.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nError to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. John R. Newcomer, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the March term, 1912.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed November 24, 1913.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by A. R. Fifer, trading as A. R. Fifer & Company, against Hyman Lewis and Louis Redman, to recover broker\u2019s\u00bb commissions on the sale of property. From a judgment of three hundred dollars and costs, defendants bring error.\nWilliam Reeda and Samuel Micon, for plaintiffs in error.\nMax M. Grossman, for defendant in error.\nSee Illinois Notos Digest, Vols. XI to XIV, samo topic and section number."
  },
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  "last_page_order": 372
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