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  "name": "Otto Miller et al., Appellees, v. Gustave Anderson, Appellant",
  "name_abbreviation": "Miller v. Anderson",
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    "parties": [
      "Otto Miller et al., Appellees, v. Gustave Anderson, Appellant."
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    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice Fitch\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\n2. Appeal and error, \u00a7 578 \u2014Amendment of 1911 to section 81 of Practice Act construed. The Amendment of 1911 to section 81 of the Practice Act, J. & A. \u00b6 8681, merely inserts a provision for an alternative method of presenting questions for review in the form of a \u201cstenographic report\u2019\u2019 of the trial, and does not have the effect of abolishing the former rule which requires formal exceptions, and the same to be preserved in the bill of exceptions, where the party chooses the bill-of-exceptions method of review.\n3. Municipal Court of Chicago, \u00a7 27 \u2014when hill of exceptions cannot he treated as stenographic report. Failure of bill of exceptions to show that any exception was taken to the judgment of the Municipal Court cannot be cured by treating the bill as a stenographic report where it appears on its face not to be a stenographic report.",
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        "author": "Mr. Presiding Justice Fitch"
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    "attorneys": [
      "Rathje & Wesemann, for appellant; Tenney, Harding & Sherman, of counsel.",
      "Charles A. Williams, for appellees; Epstein & Marx, of counsel."
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    "head_matter": "Otto Miller et al., Appellees, v. Gustave Anderson, Appellant.\nGen. No. 19,849.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Municipal Court of Chicago, \u00a7 28 \u2014necessity of preserving exception to judgment in hill of exceptions. On appeal from a judgment of the Municipal Court in a non jury case, the sufficiency of the evidence to support the judgment cannot he inquired into where the appellant chooses the hill-of-exceptions method of review and the bill does not show any exception to the judgment.\nAppeal from the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Hosea W. Wells, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1913.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed October 8, 1914.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Otto Miller et al., against Gustave Anderson to recover brokerage commissions earned by plaintiffs in procuring a purchaser for certain real estate belonging to defendant. The trial was had before the court without a jury and plaintiffs recovered a judgment for $1,291.87. To reverse the judgment, defendant appeals.\nThe defendant urged as ground for reversal that the evidence was insufficient to sustain the judgment.\nRathje & Wesemann, for appellant; Tenney, Harding & Sherman, of counsel.\nCharles A. Williams, for appellees; Epstein & Marx, of counsel.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
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