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  "id": 5367203,
  "name": "Arthur T. Vreeland, Plaintiff in Error, v. Warren Vreeland, Defendant in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "Vreeland v. Vreeland",
  "decision_date": "1914-05-04",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 19,046",
  "first_page": "183",
  "last_page": "184",
  "citations": [
    {
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      "cite": "186 Ill. App. 183"
    }
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
  },
  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
  },
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    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Arthur T. Vreeland, Plaintiff in Error, v. Warren Vreeland, Defendant in Error."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Brown\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\nAbstract of the Decision.\nMunicipal Court of Chicago, \u00a7 13 \u2014when statement of claim too vague to state a cause of action. A statement of claim as follows: \u201cPlaintiff\u2019s claim is upon the contract hereto attached for money had and received by defendant, to-wit, $1000, received by defendant as one of the heirs of John J. Vreeland, deceased, by virtue of a settlement of the suit to contest John J. Vreeland\u2019s will; said sum is one-sixth of the amount received by defendant,\u201d held too vague to state a cause of action, in that it did not aver from whom defendant received the money or why and when it was received, and there was no intervening connection between it and the contract.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice Brown"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "J. Warner Beckstrom, for plaintiff in error.",
      "William A. Morrow, for defendant in error."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Arthur T. Vreeland, Plaintiff in Error, v. Warren Vreeland, Defendant in Error.\nGen. No. 19,046.\n(Not to he reported in full.)\nError to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Hosea W. Wells, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in this court at the March term, 1913.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed May 4, 1914.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Arthur T. Vreeland against Warren Vreeland in the Municipal Court of Chicago. The court ruled that plaintiff\u2019s statement of claim was insufficient to sustain an action. Plaintiff declining to take advantage of leave to file an amended or more specific statement, elected to \u201cto stand by his original statement of claim.\u201d Thereupon the court entered a judgment of nil capiat and for costs against him. To reverse the judgment, plaintiff prosecutes a writ of error.\nJ. Warner Beckstrom, for plaintiff in error.\nWilliam A. Morrow, for defendant in error.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
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