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  "id": 5368075,
  "name": "Roy Forney, Appellee, v. Crawford Locomotive & Car Company, Appellant",
  "name_abbreviation": "Forney v. Crawford Locomotive & Car Co.",
  "decision_date": "1914-04-15",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 5,848",
  "first_page": "231",
  "last_page": "231",
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      "cite": "186 Ill. App. 231"
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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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    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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    "parties": [
      "Roy Forney, Appellee, v. Crawford Locomotive & Car Company, Appellant."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice Whitney\ndelivered the opinion of the court.",
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        "author": "Mr. Presiding Justice Whitney"
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    "attorneys": [
      "Robert E. Larkin, for appellant.",
      "No appearance for appellee."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Roy Forney, Appellee, v. Crawford Locomotive & Car Company, Appellant.\nGen. No. 5,848.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAppeal from the Circuit Court of La Salle county; the Hon. Edgar Eldridge, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in this court at the October term, 1913.\nReversed.\nOpinion filed April 15, 1914.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Boy Forney against Crawford Locomotive & Car Company, a corporation, to recover a balance claimed to be due for wages. Suit was first commenced before a justice of the peace where plaintiff recovered a judgment. On appeal to the Circuit Court he also recovered a judgment. To reverse the judgment of the Circuit Court, defendant appeals.\nRobert E. Larkin, for appellant.\nNo appearance for appellee.\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Master and servant, \u00a7 84 \u2014when judgment for wages cannot he sustained. In an action for wages, the facts showed that plaintiff hired to work at piece work and not by the day, and when he came to be paid he found that he had made only seventy cents a day, and after working one day longer, quit. Beld that a judgment for plaintiff coula not be sustained for the reason that he\" had contracted to work by the piece, was paid by the piece and accepted the pay.\n2. Appeal and error, \u00a7 1802 \u2014when judgment may he reversed without remandment. On appeal from a judgment for wages, where the judgment cannot be sustained and it appeared as to a part of plaintiff\u2019s claim for which he might recover that the suit was prematurely brought, held that the judgment could be reversed without remanding the cause to enable the plaintiff to recover for such part of his claim.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
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