{
  "id": 5370016,
  "name": "D. C. Miller, Appellant, v. Eva S. Liljerstrom, Appellee",
  "name_abbreviation": "Miller v. Liljerstrom",
  "decision_date": "1914-04-15",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 5,834",
  "first_page": "275",
  "last_page": "276",
  "citations": [
    {
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      "cite": "186 Ill. App. 275"
    }
  ],
  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
  },
  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
  },
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  "last_updated": "2023-07-14T19:18:25.002075+00:00",
  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "D. C. Miller, Appellant, v. Eva S. Liljerstrom, Appellee."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Carnes\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\nAbstract of the Decision.\nAttobney and client, \u00a7 135 \u2014when evidence insufficient to establish contract for compensation. In an action by an attorney to recover one-half the value of real estate which plaintiff took as devisee in the will of her father, plaintiff claimed he was entitled thereto under an oral contract with defendant that he should receive one-half of defendant\u2019s father\u2019s property he might obtain for her by inducing the father to own that defendant was his child and inducing the father to make a will devising his property to defendant. Held that a verdict for defendant on conflicting evidence whether defendant made such a contract would not be disturbed.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice Carnes"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "R. C. Hunt, for appellant.",
      "Hardy, Welsh & Hardy and E. A. Corbin, for appellee."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "D. C. Miller, Appellant, v. Eva S. Liljerstrom, Appellee.\nGen. No. 5,834.\n(Not to Tbe reported in full.)\nAppeal from the County Court of Knox county; the Hon. R. C. Rice, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in this court at the October term, 1913.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed April 15, 1914.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction in assumpsit by D. C. Miller against Eva S. Liljerstrom to recover one-half the value of real estate which defendant took as sole devisee named in the will of her father. It appeared that defendant\u2014an uneducated woman, was an illegitimate child and had been living with her father and was recognized and treated as his daughter, and that the father, unfamiliar with business affairs, neglected to make a will in her favor. She discussed the matter with plaintiff, who was an attorney, and he drafted a paper for her father to sign which was entitled \u201cThe acknowledging and owning of a child,\u201d but the signature was not obtained. Plaintiff claims that afterwards through a mutual friend he induced the father to make a will leaving his property to defendant and that he had an oral agreement with her that he should receive one-half the value of the property he might thus obtain for her. The jury found for the defendant and judgment was entered on the verdict. From the judgment, plaintiff appeals.\nR. C. Hunt, for appellant.\nHardy, Welsh & Hardy and E. A. Corbin, for appellee.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vole. XI to XV and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
  },
  "file_name": "0275-01",
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