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  "id": 5380587,
  "name": "The Frederickson Company, Defendant in Error, v. S. A. Lewinsohn, Plaintiff in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "Frederickson Co. v. Lewinsohn",
  "decision_date": "1914-12-31",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 19,754",
  "first_page": "17",
  "last_page": "19",
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      "cite": "191 Ill. App. 17"
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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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  "last_updated": "2023-07-14T16:18:11.463405+00:00",
  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "The Frederickson Company, Defendant in Error, v. S. A. Lewinsohn, Plaintiff in Error."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice Fitch\ndelivered the opinion of the court.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Presiding Justice Fitch"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Leslie H. Whipp, for plaintiff in error.",
      "Elbert C. Ferguson, for defendant in error."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "The Frederickson Company, Defendant in Error, v. S. A. Lewinsohn, Plaintiff in Error.\nGen. No. 19,754.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nError to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. James C. Martin, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1914.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed December 31, 1914.,\nStatement of the Case.\nAction in the Municipal Court of Chicago by The Frederickson Company, a corporation, against S. A. Lewinsohn to recover the price of goods sold and delivered. The plaintiff\u2019s statement of claim is \u201cfor goods, wares and merchandise bargained, sold and delivered by the plaintiff to defendant at the special instance and request of defendant,\u201d which merchandise consisted of 1,000 \u201cdaily pad\u201d calendars delivered to defendant at different times between December 9, 1912, and December 30, 1912. The affidavit attached ' to the statement of claim states that this is a suit \u201cupon contract for the payment of money; that the nature of the plaintiff\u2019s demand is for goods, wares and merchandise sold and delivered as above set out in the amended statement of claim,\u201d and that there is due to the plaintiff three hundred dollars, etc.\nTo this statement of claim, plaintiff in error filed an affidavit of merits, stating that he had a good defense upon the merits of the whole of the plaintiff\u2019s demand; \u201cthat said goods, wares and merchandise were not the goods, wares and merchandise which were sold to the defendant, in that (1) they did not contain the reading matter which the plaintiff\" agreed should be placed upon the same,\u201d viz., the words \u201ccorner of Dearborn street;\u201d (2) the calendars \u201cwere to be securely fastened to a double mat,\u201d and were not, in fact so fastened; (3) the calendars \u201cwere to be numbered consedutively according to the day of the month and year, \u2019 \u2019 and were not so numbered; (4) \u201csaid goods and merchandise should have been delivered on the first day of December, 1912, but the same were not so delivered;\u201d and that the alleged defective condition of the calendars was not discovered, and defendant was unable to discover the same, until the calendars had been in use for several months, and the \u201cwear and tear incident to the use which they were put to revealed that condition.\u201d\nOn motion, this affidavit of merits was stricken from the files and judgment was entered, as by default, for want of a sufficient affidavit of merits. To reverse the judgment, defendant prosecutes a writ of error.\nAbstract of the Decision.\ns 1. Sales, \u00a7 823 \u2014when affidavit of merits does not state valid defense. In an action to recover the price of pad calendars sold and delivered, an affidavit of merits alleging that the calendars were in defective condition and not the same as ordered, and in effect admitted that defendant received and used the calendars and did not return or offer to return them at any time, held not to state a valid defense, where it did not allege that there was any express warranty of the quality or condition, that plaintiff was a manufacturer of the calendars or that they were made to order.\n2. Sales, \u00a7 323*\u2014when affidavit of merits does not state valid defense. In an action for the purchase price of goods sold and delivered, an affidavit of merits setting up as a defense that the goods were not delivered at the time agreed upon, held not to state a valid defense, where there was no averment that defendant was damaged thereby, and the averment was apparently inserted in the affidavit only as one of the alleged facts supporting the theory that the goods delivered \u201cwere not the goods sold.\u201d\nDefendant urged as ground for reversal that the affidavit of merits stated a good defense to plaintiff\u2019s claim and that the court erred in striking it from the-files and entering judgment.\nLeslie H. Whipp, for plaintiff in error.\nElbert C. Ferguson, for defendant in error.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Yola. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
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