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  "name": "City of Dixon, Appellant, v. Jacob Mayer, Appellee",
  "name_abbreviation": "City of Dixon v. Mayer",
  "decision_date": "1914-04-15",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 5,896",
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    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
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    "name_long": "Illinois",
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    "parties": [
      "City of Dixon, Appellant, v. Jacob Mayer, Appellee."
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    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice Whitney\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\n4. Municipal corporations, \u00a7 85 \u2014power to establish rules of evidence. An ordinance declaring that general reputation shall be sufficient to convict a person of keeping a house of ill fame is void. A city cannot establish rules of evidence.\n5. Appeal and error, \u00a7 1561\u2014where refusal of requested instruction harmless. Refusal of a requested instruction embodied in an instruction given held not error.",
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        "author": "Mr. Presiding Justice Whitney"
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      "Mark C. Keller, for appellant.",
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    "head_matter": "City of Dixon, Appellant, v. Jacob Mayer, Appellee.\nGen. No. 5,896.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAppeal from the Circuit Court of Lee county; the Hon. Richard S. Fabband, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in this court at the October term. 1913.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed April 15, 1914.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by City of Dixon against Jacob Mayer to enforce an ordinance of the City of Dixon prohibiting the keeping and maintaining of a house of ill fame therein. Proceedings were instituted in the justice court, where defendant was tried before a jury, found guilty and fined. On appeal from the justice to the Circuit Court a verdict of not guilty was returned and judgment entered thereon. To reverse the judgment of the Circuit Court, plaintiff appeals.\nMark C. Keller, for appellant.\nBrooks & Brooks, for appellee.\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Disorderly house, \u00a7 2 \u2014when evidence of general reputation incompetent. On trial of a person for keeping a house of ill fame, testimony of a witness as to the general reputation of defendant\u2019s house for chastity and morals in that community is incompetent.\n2. Evidence, \u00a7 459 \u2014what inadmissible to prove testimony of a deceased witness on former trial. On appeal from a justice of the peace to the Circuit Court, the transcript of the evidence of a witness who testified before the justice and who afterwards died, held improperly admitted.\n3. Evidence, \u00a7 459 \u2014foundation for introduction in evidence of what a witness swore to on former trial. Proof merely that a certain officer who tried to find a witness on subprena failed to find him is insufficient to lay a foundation for the introduction in evidence at the trial on appeal to the Circuit Court of what he swore to before the justice.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
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