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  "id": 4904533,
  "name": "James C. Ware v. Lazarus Hirsch",
  "name_abbreviation": "Ware v. Hirsch",
  "decision_date": "1886-02-25",
  "docket_number": "",
  "first_page": "277",
  "last_page": "279",
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      "cite": "19 Ill. App. 277"
    }
  ],
  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
  },
  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
  },
  "cites_to": [
    {
      "cite": "68 Ill. 887",
      "category": "reporters:state",
      "reporter": "Ill.",
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  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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    "parties": [
      "James C. Ware v. Lazarus Hirsch."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Wall, P. J.\nThis was an action of replevin to recover certain goods levied upon by appellant as sheriff by virtue of a writ of attachment in his hands in favor of Toule, Carl & Co., against J. W. Jefferson.\nThere was a verdict and judgment in favor of appellee.\nThe goods in controversy were a part of the stock referred to in the preceding case, Ware v. Hirsch, and the title of the appellee rests upon the facts disclosed by the record in that case.\nSubstantially the same questions are presented as to the validity of the possession relied upon by appellee. For the reasons given in that case we are of opinion the appellee was entitled to recover and it is unnecessary to repeat what was there said.\nAnother point is urged here. After the jury had retired the court upon its own motion caused the jury to be recalled and allowed the appellee to put a question to the witness Jefferson, which had been proposed while the witness was on the stand before the evidence was closed, but the court then declined to permit the question to be asked.\nThis action of the court, in recalling the jury for this purpose, was objected to by appellant and is now assigned as error. It was a matter resting in the sound discretion of the court.\nIf upon reflection the court was of opinion that it had improperly excluded the' evidence, it had the power to take this course for the purpose of correcting the mistake, and unless it appears that the rights of the party objecting have been unduly prejudiced thereby such action will not be deemed error.\nIt is objected further that the evidence elicited was incompetent and should have been excluded for that reason.\nThe question put to the witness was whether he had notified the attaching creditors that he would settle with them, and. in reply he stated that he wrote to them notifying them that he had sold the Ludlow store to the other parties and requesting them to meet him that he might settle with them, and that he got a letter from them in reply.\nIt is urged by appellant that this evidence was incompetent because it was blit a statement of the contents of a writing. Appellee insists that the letter was a mere notice, and that the fact of sending it and that a reply was received showing that the notice had not miscarried, is no violation of the familiar rule which prohibits parol proof of the contents of a disputed and material writing in existence, citing Williams v. G. M. I. Co., 68 Ill. 887. Appellant does not object to proving notice, but to proving it in this way. Assuming, without deciding, that the rule referred to is applicable here, we think the error is not of such importance as to justify a reversal. The statement made by the witness was general and he did not assume to give the precise contents of the letter. The effect of the testimony was more in the fact that the letter was really sent and received than in what was its exact purport.\nBut it is not apparent why the verdict should not have been the same without this evidence. Indeed we think the admission or rejection of it should have made no difference.\nThe verdict is right in our opinion, regardless of this evidence. The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that where it can see the verdict is a just one it will not reverse for an error in admitting evidence which did not probably affect the result.\nWe think that rule should prevail in the present instance.\nFinding no error prejudicial to the appellant the judgment will be affirmed..\nAffirmed.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Wall, P. J."
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    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Mr. Thos. J. Smith, for appellant.",
      "Mr. J. L. Ray, for appellee."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "James C. Ware v. Lazarus Hirsch.\n1. Sale to creditors. \u2014 The facts in this case as to the sale being the same as the preceding, it is affirmed for the same reason.\n2. Practice \u2014 Recalmmu <tury. \u2014 Where, after the jury had retired, the court upon its own motion caused the jury to he recalled and allowed the appellee to put a question to a witness which had been proposed while the witness was on the stand before the evidence was closed, but the court had then declined to permit the question to be asked, held, that the recalling of the jury was a matter resting in the sound discretion of the court.\nAppeal from the Circuit Court of Champaign county; the Hon. C. B. Smith, Judge, presiding.\nOpinion filed February 25, 1886.\nMr. Thos. J. Smith, for appellant.\nMr. J. L. Ray, for appellee."
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  "first_page_order": 275,
  "last_page_order": 277
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