{
  "id": 5384873,
  "name": "Herbert L. Joseph & Company, Defendant in Error, v. Sidney E. Levy, Plaintiff in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "Herbert L. Joseph & Co. v. Levy",
  "decision_date": "1915-03-08",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 20,578",
  "first_page": "595",
  "last_page": "597",
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      "cite": "191 Ill. App. 595"
    }
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
  },
  "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": [
      "Herbert L. Joseph & Company, Defendant in Error, v. Sidney E. Levy, Plaintiff in Error."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice McSurely\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\n2. Guaranty, \u00a7 3 \u2014when signature of guarantor sufficient. The signature of a guarantor helow and to the left of the signature of the person making a contract is sufficient to make him a guarantor without the addition of other words.\n3. Municipal Court of Chicago, \u00a7 13*\u2014when filing of amendment to statement of claim not necessary. In a case of the fourth class in the Municipal Court of Chicago, where leave is given a plaintiff to amend his statement by increasing the amount claimed, the filing of an actual literal amendment is not necessary to support a finding for the increased amount.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice McSurely"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Joseph D. Irose, for plaintiff in error.",
      "Sidney Lyon, for defendant in error."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Herbert L. Joseph & Company, Defendant in Error, v. Sidney E. Levy, Plaintiff in Error.\nGen. No. 20,578.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nError to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Charles A. Williams, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1914.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed March 8, 1915.\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Guaranty, \u00a7 7 \u2014what consideration sufficient. The settlement of the account of the person in whose behalf a guaranty is given with the person receiving the guaranty is a sufficient consideration for the undertaking of the guarantor.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Herbert L. Joseph & Company, corporation, against Sidney E. Levy as guarantor on a written contract which provided for certain payments to be made to plaintiff.\nThe contract involved was, in part, as follows:\n\u201cIn consideration of the settlement of the account of Mamie Ward, I promise to pay to Herbert L. Joseph & Co. Stock No.-Price $65.00 I hereby agree to pay Herbert L. Joseph & Co., at Chicago, 111., or their authorized agent, the sum of $65.00 as follows: $5.00 on 6-9-13 down and the balance in wkly installments of $5.00 each, payable on Monday of each and every wk until paid in full.\u201d\nThis was followed by provisions concerning the sale and purchase of and the title and right of possession to \u201csaid property.\u201d The execution of the contract was in the following form:\n\u201cWitness my hand and seal this 4th day of June, 1913. .\n(Customer) Mrs. May Baker (Seal)\nAddress 428 S. Morgan......Flat\n(Guarantor) Sidney E. Levy (Seal)\nAddress 105 W. Monroe St. \u2019 \u2019\nPlaintiff had judgment for $50.50, to reverse which, defendant prosecutes this writ of error.\nJoseph D. Irose, for plaintiff in error.\nSidney Lyon, for defendant in error.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same \u201ctopic and section number."
  },
  "file_name": "0595-01",
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  "last_page_order": 641
}