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  "id": 5372287,
  "name": "James M. Swan, Appellant, v. Charles Lathe, Appellee",
  "name_abbreviation": "Swan v. Lathe",
  "decision_date": "1914-04-15",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 5,890",
  "first_page": "244",
  "last_page": "245",
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      "cite": "186 Ill. App. 244"
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
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    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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    "parties": [
      "James M. Swan, Appellant, v. Charles Lathe, Appellee."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice Whitney\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Bills and notes, \u00a7 50 \u2014what constitutes a good consideration for a note. Where a person having certain property in his possession gives his promissory note to another in settlement of a- claim of the latter that a third person\u2019s interest in the property had been assigned to him to settle a balance due on a certain chattel mortgage, held that there was a good consideration for the note if the claim was true.\n2. Bills and notes, \u00a7 420 \u2014when exclusion of letter is error. In an action on a promissory note, where the defense was want of consideration, exclusion of a letter offered by plaintiff to show that plaintiff was owner of certain property for which the note was given, held error where the only specific objection to its admission was that it was not written by a party to the suit.",
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        "author": "Mr. Presiding Justice Whitney"
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    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Brooks & Brooks and I. L. Weaver, for appellant.",
      "J. J. Ludens, for appellee."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "James M. Swan, Appellant, v. Charles Lathe, Appellee.\nGen. No. 5,890.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAppeal from the City Court of Sterling; the Hon. William A. Blodgett, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in this court at the October term, 1913.\nReversed and remanded.\nOpinion filed April 15, 1914.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by James M. Swan against Charles Lathe on a promissory note for one hundred dollars. Suit was originally brought before a justice of the peace where plaintiff was defeated, and on taking an appeal to the City Court of Sterling he was again defeated, From the judgment of the City Court, plaintiff appeals.\nBrooks & Brooks and I. L. Weaver, for appellant.\nJ. J. Ludens, for appellee.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
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