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  "id": 5367483,
  "name": "Nathan Sloan, trading as Nathan Sloan & Company for use of First National Bank of Chicago, Defendant in Error, v. Boston Insurance Company, Plaintiff in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "Sloan ex rel. First National Bank v. Boston Insurance",
  "decision_date": "1914-04-23",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 19,120",
  "first_page": "81",
  "last_page": "82",
  "citations": [
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      "cite": "186 Ill. App. 81"
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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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    "parties": [
      "Nathan Sloan, trading as Nathan Sloan & Company for use of First National Bank of Chicago, Defendant in Error, v. Boston Insurance Company, Plaintiff in Error."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice Fitch\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Insurance, \u00a7 131 -\u2014property covered by insurance policy. \u00a1Where a fire policy described the property insured as being \u201con stock of merchandise consisting chiefly of ladies\u2019 suits, skirts and 'jackets, manufactured and in the process of manufacture, and all the materials used in the manufacture of the same, their own or held by them in trust, or on commission,\u201d held that the policy covered furs and skins not owned by the insured but held by him \u201con memorandum,\u201d to be sold in the name of the owner, though the insured\u2019s compensation for selling them was fixed at a certain proportion of the profits.\n2. Insurance, \u00a7 218 \u2014when printed condition in policy qualified by special provision. A general printed condition in a fire insurance policy which stated: \u201cThis policy, unless otherwise provided by agreement indorsed thereon or added thereto, shall be void * * * if the interest of the insured be other than unconditional and sole ownership,\u201d held qualified by a special provision covering property held by the insured \u201cin trust or on commission.\u201d\n3. Insurance, \u00a7 669 \u2014when amount recovered on fire policy not sustained by the evidence. In an action on a fire insurance policy, a verdict for the plaintiff held to be against the weight of the evidence as to the amount of loss sustained, it appearing that the amount of loss as stated in plaintiff\u2019s proof of loss and in the appraisers\u2019 report was excessive and that the jury may have acted upon the erroneous assumption that the report of appraisers was conclusive.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Presiding Justice Fitch"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Charles B. Obermeyer, for plaintiff in error.",
      "Frank M. Fairfield, for defendant in error."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Nathan Sloan, trading as Nathan Sloan & Company for use of First National Bank of Chicago, Defendant in Error, v. Boston Insurance Company, Plaintiff in Error.\nGen. No. 19,120.\n(Not to he reported in full.)\nError to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Edwin K. Walker, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1913.\nReversed and remanded.\nOpinion filed April 23, 1914.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Nathan Sloan, trading as Nathan Sloan & Company, for use of First National Bank of Chicago against Boston Insurance Company, a corporation, upon a fire insurance policy for $1,000. The plaintiff was a manufacturer of ladies\u2019 suits and cloaks and occupied a floor of a fireproof building. He carried insurance amounting to $17,000 upon his stock of merchandise, represented by seventeen policies of $1,000 each, issued in different insurance companies. The statement of claim alleged that the plaintiff sustained a loss of $24,993.06; that he made proofs of loss; that an appraisement was made pursuant to the provisions of the policy; and that the appraisers fixed the sound value of plaintiff\u2019s property at the sum of $11,550, and the loss and damage thereon at the same amount. Upon a trial before a jury, a verdict was rendered for plaintiff for $710.55, being one-seventeenth of $11,-550, with interest. To reverse a judgment, entered upon the verdict, defendant brings error.\nCharles B. Obermeyer, for plaintiff in error.\nFrank M. Fairfield, for defendant in error.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
  },
  "file_name": "0081-01",
  "first_page_order": 127,
  "last_page_order": 128
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