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  "name": "Kenfield Publishing Company, Appellee, v. Edward H. Baumgartner, Appellant",
  "name_abbreviation": "Kenfield Publishing Co. v. Baumgartner",
  "decision_date": "1914-11-10",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 19,898",
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    "parties": [
      "Kenfield Publishing Company, Appellee, v. Edward H. Baumgartner, Appellant."
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        "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice Barnes\ndelivered the opinion of the court.",
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    "attorneys": [
      "Edwin A. Hunger, for appellant.",
      "Jones, Addington, Ames & Seibold, for appellee; Walter Hamilton, of counsel."
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    "head_matter": "Kenfield Publishing Company, Appellee, v. Edward H. Baumgartner, Appellant.\nGen. No. 19,898.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAppeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Charles A. McDonald, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1913.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed November 10, 1914.\nStatement of the Case.\nPlaintiff, Kenfield Publishing Company, a corporation, declared on the common counts against Edward H. Baumgartner, defendant.\nThe primary question involved was whether defendant was liable to plaintiff for the expenses incident to the printing and publishing of certain numbers of a monthly journal, called \u201cThe Motor Way,\u201d for the months of April to October, 1907, inclusive. The report of the referee was adopted by the court so far as it found defendant liable for the expenses incurred up to and including September 6, 1907, when defendant ceased to do anything further in the way of publishing said journal. The cross-errors relate to the failure of the court to find defendant liable for expenses of printing, etc., incurred after said date.\n\u201cThe Motor Way\u201d was owned by the Technical Press of America, a corporation, of which one Albert T. Leach was a stockholder. By written agreement made March 27, 1907, between said corporation and Leach of one part, and Baumgartner of the other, the latter agreed, among other things, to continue the publication and distribution of \u201cThe Motor Way\u201d for five years at his own expense. Prior to that time said journal was printed by plaintiff for said Technical Press. Plaintiff continued to print the subsequent issues here involved, and this suit was brought to recover the charges and expenses incident thereto.\nLeach was the secretary and treasurer of the plaintiff and testified that defendant requested plaintiff to print the April issue and said he would assume payment of the bills and responsibility for the publication, and that thereupon plaintiff agreed to do the printing for him; that he subsequently promised payment on account and transferred to plaintiff certain notes to be applied thereon. In a letter dated July 11, 1907, replying to a letter from plaintiff saying it had ceased work on the publication of the July number, defendant, claiming its action was unwarranted, said: \u201cYou (plaintiff) were directed by me to issue the number.\u2019.\u2019 In another letter written in September, after abandonment of his contract, he recognized his liability for the account with plaintiff \u201cfor printing, paper, etc., incurred within the last four or five months.\u201d\nPlaintiff recovered judgment from which defendant appeals.\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Contracts, \u00a7 97 \u2014when evidence of fraud in execution of sealed instrument inadmissible. Proof under a special plea of fraudulent representations, as an inducement to enter into a contract, is properly excluded as inadmissible in a suit on an instrument under seal.\n2. Assumpsit, action of, \u00a7 70 \u2014when recovery may be had on quantum meruit. Evidence held sufficient to warrant recovery under a quantum meruit count for printing, paper and other expenses up to the time when defendant gave notice of the abandonment of his contract.\n3. Evidence, \u00a7 255 \u2014when entries in booh account do not impeach promise to pay. Where entries are made in hook accounts charging both a defendant and another, they do not necessarily impeach the independent evidence that defendant promised plaintiff to pay the account and recognized his liability therefor, since there is an implied consent to the charges made against him.\n4. Contracts, \u00a7 349 \u2014when made for benefit of third party. The doctrine that a third party may maintain an action on a promise made by one person to another for his benefit is limited to contracts which have for their primary object and purpose the benefit of a third person and which are made for his direct benefit.\n5. Contracts, \u00a7 349 \u2014-when one is not a third party beneficiary. Where plaintiff corporation was not a party to a contract and had no interest in its performance except possible employment to do printing, its interest was so indirect that it could not invoke the doctrine of third party beneficiary under a contract, so that the court properly limited defendant\u2019s liability to the obligation arising under the agreement which the evidence tended to show he made directly with the plaintiff.\nEdwin A. Hunger, for appellant.\nJones, Addington, Ames & Seibold, for appellee; Walter Hamilton, of counsel.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
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