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  "id": 2850380,
  "name": "J. F. Comstock, Appellee, v. J. H. Keith and A. F. Keith, Appellants",
  "name_abbreviation": "Comstock v. Keith",
  "decision_date": "1913-12-27",
  "docket_number": "",
  "first_page": "89",
  "last_page": "90",
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      "cite": "185 Ill. App. 89"
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
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  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "J. F. Comstock, Appellee, v. J. H. Keith and A. F. Keith, Appellants."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Thompson\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Brokers, \u00a7 88 \u2014when verdict in favor of subagent sustained by the evidence. In an action against real estate agents to recover for services rendered in procuring certain persons as purchasers of Canadian lands at the request of the defendants, where the defendants denied that they ever made such request, a verdict for plaintiff held sustained by the evidence.\n2. Brokers, \u00a7 85 \u2014admissibility of evidence. In an action by a real estate agent to recover for services in procuring for defendants, real estate agents, persons to purchase Canadian lands, permitting plaintiff to testify that he assisted such persons at the request of defendants in procuring loans, held not prejudicial error.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice Thompson"
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    "attorneys": [
      "I. B. Brown and Joseph E. Barnes, for appellants.",
      "Q-. E. Nelson and Clayton J. Barber, for appellee."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "J. F. Comstock, Appellee, v. J. H. Keith and A. F. Keith, Appellants.\n(Not to he reported in full.)\nAppeal from the Circuit Court of Mason county; the Hon. Albert Akers, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in this court at the October term, 1913.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed December 27, 1913.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by J. F. Comstock against J. H. Keith and A. F. Keith to recover for services rendered in accompanying certain persons to Canada and procuring them to purchase four hundred and eighty acres of Canadian lands. The defendants were real estate agents for the land, and plaintiff, who was engaged in the real estate business, claims he performed the services at the request of the defendants. From a judgment in favor of plaintiff for four hundred and eighty dollars defendants appeal.\nI. B. Brown and Joseph E. Barnes, for appellants.\nQ-. E. Nelson and Clayton J. Barber, for appellee.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV. same topic and section- number."
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