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  "id": 2901272,
  "name": "Orthwein Matchette Company, Defendant in Error, v. Finley Barrell et al., trading as Finley Barrell & Company, Plaintiffs in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "Orthwein Matchette Co. v. Barrell",
  "decision_date": "1914-11-30",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 20,282",
  "first_page": "11",
  "last_page": "12",
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      "cite": "190 Ill. App. 11"
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    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
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  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
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    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Orthwein Matchette Company, Defendant in Error, v. Finley Barrell et al., trading as Finley Barrell & Company, Plaintiffs in Error."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr, Justice Baker\ndelivered the opinion of the court.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr, Justice Baker"
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    "attorneys": [
      "Chester Arthur Legg, for plaintiffs in error. .",
      "James M. Sheean and Martin H. Foss, for defendant in error."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Orthwein Matchette Company, Defendant in Error, v. Finley Barrell et al., trading as Finley Barrell & Company, Plaintiffs in Error.\nGen. No. 20,282.\n(Not to fee reported in full.)\nAbstract of the Decision.\nPartnership, \u00a7 123 \u2014evidence sufficient to establish agreement with. In an action against a copartnership to.recover a sum alleged to be due under a contract whereby the defendants agreed to take care \"of the business furnished\" by a Board of Trade i\u00f1 a certain city with which plaintiff had a contract, \"evidence held sufficient to warrant a finding by a jury that the defendants, through one of their members, assented to the contract with reference to the conditions of the arrangement made between plaintiff and said Board of Trade so that the defendants were bound thereby, it appearing that the member was present at the time the arrangement was orally made and that the plaintiff thereafter sent a memorandum of the agreement to him for his approval, and in answer thereto he wrote to plaintiff that to his mind it covered all the points of the agreement.\nError to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. William N. Gemmiul, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the March term, 1914.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed November 30, 1914.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Orthwein Matchette Company, a corporation, against Finley Barrell, Eugene B. Pike and William E. White, copartners, trading as Finley Barrell & Company, to recover a sum alleged to be due the plaintiff under a written contract, relating to an arrangement whereby the defendants agreed to install1 a private wire from the office of plaintiff in Kansas City to.its office in Wichita, and the plaintiff agreed to send the defendants all the grain business' it received from the Wichita Board of Trade except that to be executed at Kansas City. To reverse a judgment entered on a verdict in favor of plaintiff, defendants prosecute a writ of error.\nChester Arthur Legg, for plaintiffs in error. .\nJames M. Sheean and Martin H. Foss, for defendant in error.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number.."
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