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  "id": 2901577,
  "name": "W. D. Smidt, Defendant in Error, v. J. C. Dubois, Plaintiff in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "Smidt v. Dubois",
  "decision_date": "1914-10-16",
  "docket_number": "",
  "first_page": "563",
  "last_page": "564",
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      "cite": "190 Ill. App. 563"
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    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
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    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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    "parties": [
      "W. D. Smidt, Defendant in Error, v. J. C. Dubois, Plaintiff in Error."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Scholfield\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\n3. Tbial, \u00a7 71 \u2014discretion of court in permitting a witness to testify after violation of rule excluded witnesses. Action of trial court in refusing to allow a witness to testify after he violated a rule excluding witnesses from the court, held not an abuse of discretion.\n4. Appeal and ebbob, \u00a7 1491*\u2014when exclusion of-testimony harmless. Refusal to permit a witness to testify, held not reversible error where his offered testimony was in regard to a written schedule, and the schedule itself was the best evidence, and the failure to produce the schedule was unaccounted for.\n5. Appeal and ebbob, \u00a7 1512*-\u2014when improper remarks of court harmless. Remarks of court in refusing defendant to be represented by additional counsel in the case at the close of the examination of the jury, held not reversible error.\n6. Appeal and ebbob, \u00a7 1500*\u2014when limiting number of counsel harmless. Action of court at the close of examination of the jury in refusing to permit defendant to have other counsel appear for him in the case, held not reversible error, where it appeared that the person proposed as additional counsel thereafter took part in the trial and that defendant was ably represented by other counsel.\n7. Account, action on, \u00a7 2*\u2014sufficiency of instructions. Instructions singling out plaintiff\u2019s book account and prominently calling the attention of the jury thereto, held bad.\n8. Account, action on, \u00a7 2*\u2014sufficiency of instruction. In an action to recover a sum claimed to be due on open account, an instruction eliminating the question of payment as a defense from the consideration of the jury, held bad.\n9. Account, action on, \u00a7 2*\u2014sufficiency of instruction. In a suit on an open account, an instruction held bad for the reason that it took away from the defendant the benefit of all circumstances proven which' would indicate payment.\n10. Instbuctions, \u00a7 7*\u2014when should be accurate. Where the evidence is in direct conflict, the jury should be accurately instructed as to the law.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice Scholfield"
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    "attorneys": [
      "John Fuller, L. E. Stone and W. F. Gray, for plaintiff in error.",
      "A. F. Miller and E. B. Mitchell, for defendant in error."
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    "head_matter": "W. D. Smidt, Defendant in Error, v. J. C. Dubois, Plaintiff in Error.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Evidence, \u00a7 255 \u2014when booh of account admissible. In an action on an open account for sawing and hauling lumber for defendant, plaintiff's account hook held properly admitted in evidence, where he testified that the entries were true and just and that they were made each day at the mill on a hoard as the sawing was done and each evening transferred on the book.\n2. Tbial, \u00a7 71*\u2014effect where witness has violated rule excluding witnesses. Ordinarily the party complaining should not he deprived of the testimony of a witness because the latter has violated a rule excluding witnesses from the court room; the witness should be punished for contempt.\nError to the County Court of De Witt county; the Hon. Peed C. Hill, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the April term, 1914.\nReversed and remanded.\nOpinion filed October 16, 1914.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by W. B. Smidt against J. 0. Dubois to recover $1,000 claimed to be due on an open account for sawing lumber and hauling. The declaration consisted of the common counts and the plea was the general issue. There was a verdict and judgment in favor of plaintiff for $545.95. To reverse the judgment, defendant prosecutes error.\nJohn Fuller, L. E. Stone and W. F. Gray, for plaintiff in error.\nA. F. Miller and E. B. Mitchell, for defendant in error.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Yols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
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  "file_name": "0563-01",
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