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  "id": 2903445,
  "name": "Kingan & Company, Ltd., Appellant, v. P. J. Breen, Appellee",
  "name_abbreviation": "Kingan & Co. v. Breen",
  "decision_date": "1914-10-16",
  "docket_number": "",
  "first_page": "489",
  "last_page": "490",
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      "type": "official",
      "cite": "190 Ill. App. 489"
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  "court": {
    "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",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Kingan & Company, Ltd., Appellant, v. P. J. Breen, Appellee."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mb. Justice Eldredge\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\nScholfield, J., took no part in the consideration of this case.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mb. Justice Eldredge"
      }
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    "attorneys": [
      "Stewart W. Kincaid, for appellant.",
      "Dyas & Dyas and O\u2019Hair & Rhoads, for appellee."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Kingan & Company, Ltd., Appellant, v. P. J. Breen, Appellee.\n(Not to he reported in full.)\nAbstract of the Becision.\nPrincipal and agent, % 9*\u2014estoppel to deny authority to collect. Where it appeared that defendant had been a regular customer, placing his orders through plaintiff\u2019s traveling salesman substantially every two weeks for four or five years, and during that period had purchased from plaintiff meats and lards to the amount of about $10,000, and that during the last two years his purchases from plaintiff had amounted to about $2,700 annually, and the salesman had collected substantially all of the money for plaintiff, held plaintiff, having recognized and ratified the acts of its salesman in collecting accounts for so many years and for so large amounts, was not in a position to deny the authority of his agency to collect the item in question, upon defendant\u2019s plea of payment.\nAppeal from the Circuit Court of Edgar county; the Hon. William B. Scholfield, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the April term, 1914.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed October 16, 1914.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Kingan & Company Ltd., against P. J. Breen to recover an account of $116.57 and accrued interest.\nFrom a judgment upon a verdict for defendant, plaintiff appeals.\nStewart W. Kincaid, for appellant.\nDyas & Dyas and O\u2019Hair & Rhoads, for appellee."
  },
  "file_name": "0489-01",
  "first_page_order": 511,
  "last_page_order": 512
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