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  "id": 2850585,
  "name": "C. C. Digby et al., Plaintiffs in Error, v. Venora L. Butler, Defendant in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "Digby v. Butler",
  "decision_date": "1913-12-27",
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  "first_page": "8",
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    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
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    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "C. C. Digby et al., Plaintiffs in Error, v. Venora L. Butler, Defendant in Error."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice Philbrick\ndelivered the opinion of the court.",
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        "author": "Mr. Presiding Justice Philbrick"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Albert C. Anderson, for plaintiffs in error.",
      "Green & Parmer, for defendant in error; Oris Barth and E. C. Craig, of counsel."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "C. C. Digby et al., Plaintiffs in Error, v. Venora L. Butler, Defendant in Error.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nError to the Circuit Court of Coles county; the Hon. E. R. E. Kimbrough, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in this court at the October term, 1913.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed December 27, 1913.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by O. O. Digby and others against Venora L. Butler to recover a commission alleged to be due the plaintiffs for services rendered in finding a purchaser in the sale of a stock of merchandise owned by defendant. From a judgment entered for defendant upon a directed verdict, plaintiffs bring error.\nAbstract of the Decision.\nBrokers, \u00a7 88 \u2014when evidence insufficient to show that brokers produced a person able to make a trade. In an action to recover a commission for services rendered by plaintiffs in finding the defendant a person who was able and willing to make an exchange of real estate for a stock of merchandise, action of court in directing a verdict for defendant at the close of plaintiffs\u2019 evidence held not error, it appearing that the person produced did not have sufficient means or real estate and that after negotiations were abandoned such person induced another party to join with him in trading real estate for the stock of goods, the plaintiffs having no knowledge that such a deal was consummated until some considerable time thereafter.\nAlbert C. Anderson, for plaintiffs in error.\nGreen & Parmer, for defendant in error; Oris Barth and E. C. Craig, of counsel.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, same topic and section number."
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