{
  "id": 2847533,
  "name": "Fred Kuhlen, Defendant in Error, v. Chicago Athletic Association, Plaintiff in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "Kuhlen v. Chicago Athletic Ass'n",
  "decision_date": "1914-03-31",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 19,226",
  "first_page": "579",
  "last_page": "580",
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      "cite": "185 Ill. App. 579"
    }
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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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    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Fred Kuhlen, Defendant in Error, v. Chicago Athletic Association, Plaintiff in Error."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Pbesiding Justice Smith\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Master and servant, \u00a7 82 \u2014when written declarations of agent of employer inadmissible. In an action to recover wages where the defense was that plaintiff had been discharged for cause, a letter signed by an agent of defendant stating that plaintiff\u2019s services were satisfactory and that he was considered honest, industrious and reliable, held improperly admitted in evidence as an admission of defendant, where there was no affirmative evidence establishing the agency of the person writing it other than the declaration of the agent.\n2. Evidence, \u00a7 177 \u2014declarations of agent. Declaration of an.'' agent to be admissible against his principal must be of his own ^ knowledge and not a mere expression of opinion.",
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        "author": "Mr. Pbesiding Justice Smith"
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    "attorneys": [
      "CrAnn, Peaks & Towhlbv, for plaintiff in error.",
      "William Bebda, for defendant in error."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Fred Kuhlen, Defendant in Error, v. Chicago Athletic Association, Plaintiff in Error.\nGen. No. 19,226.\n(Not to he reported in full.)\nError to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. John D. Tubnbaugh, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1913.\nReversed and remanded.\nOpinion filed March 31, 1914.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Fred Kuhlen against Chicago Athletic Association, a corporation, to recover sixty-five dollars as wages due the plaintiff from the defendant, and for ten dollars attorneys\u2019 fees. The statement of- claim alleged that plaintiff was employed from month to month and that he was wrongfully discharged. The defense was that plaintiff was discharged for cause. From a judgment in favor of plaintiff, defendant brings error.\nPlaintiff in error urges: That the finding of facts by the court is contrary to the evidence that the court erred in admitting improper evidence on the part of plaintiff and in refusing proper evidence offered by defendant; and that the court erred in refusing to grant a new trial and in entering judgment.\nCrAnn, Peaks & Towhlbv, for plaintiff in error.\nWilliam Bebda, for defendant in error.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Veis. XI to XV, same topic and section number."
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  "file_name": "0579-01",
  "first_page_order": 605,
  "last_page_order": 606
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