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  "id": 2845234,
  "name": "William C. Regelin and William Jenson, trading as Regelin-Jenson & Company, Defendants in Error, v. Thomas Conran, Plaintiff in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "Regelin v. Conran",
  "decision_date": "1914-01-22",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 18,677",
  "first_page": "570",
  "last_page": "571",
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      "cite": "184 Ill. App. 570"
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    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
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    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
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    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "William C. Regelin and William Jenson, trading as Regelin-Jenson & Company, Defendants in Error, v. Thomas Conran, Plaintiff in Error."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice Fitch\ndelivered the opinion of the court.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Presiding Justice Fitch"
      }
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    "attorneys": [
      "Henry M. Hagan, for plaintiff in error.",
      "George H. Mason, for defendants in error."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "William C. Regelin and William Jenson, trading as Regelin-Jenson & Company, Defendants in Error, v. Thomas Conran, Plaintiff in Error.\nGen. No. 18,677.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nError to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Edwin K. Warner, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1912.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed January 22, 1914.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by William C. Regelin and William Jenson, copartners, doing business as Regelin-Jenson & Co., against' Thomas Conran to recover commissions earned in securing a purchaser for certain property belonging to defendant. From a judgment in favor of plaintiffs for $650, defendant brings error.\nHenry M. Hagan, for plaintiff in error.\nGeorge H. Mason, for defendants in error.\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Brokers, \u00a7 46*-\u2014ichen entitled to commissions though the contract between purchaser and seller was made under a mutual mistake as to the subject-matter. In an action for commissions for procuring a purchaser for property belonging to defendant, where the seller and purchaser entered into a written contract whereby the seller agreed to convey the property in consideration that the purchaser would convey to defendant other property described as being of certain dimensions, more or less, held that plaintiffs were entitled to commissions notwithstanding the purchaser and seller were mutually mistaken as to the dimensions of the property to be conveyed by the purchaser, the contract being made in good faith and enforceable in a court of law according to its terms.\n2. Vendor and purchaser, \u00a7 64*\u2014words \u201cmore or less\u201d construed. The words \u201cmore or less\u201d as applied to quantity in a contract to convey land are to he construed as qualifying a representation or statement of an absolute or definite amount, so that neither party can avoid it or set it aside by reason of any deficiency or surplus occasioned by no fraud or want of good faith, if there is a reasonable approximation to the quantity specifically stipulated in the contract.\n3. Reformation of instruments, \u00a7 34*\u2014jurisdiction. A court of law has no power to correct a mistake and reform a contract; such power rests alone in a court of equity."
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