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  "id": 2895132,
  "name": "A. L. Berry Coal Company, Defendant in Error, v. R. B. Harder, Plaintiff in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "A. L. Berry Coal Co. v. Harder",
  "decision_date": "1915-03-23",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 20,248",
  "first_page": "84",
  "last_page": "85",
  "citations": [
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      "cite": "192 Ill. App. 84"
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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": "2023-07-14T19:32:59.384140+00:00",
  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "A. L. Berry Coal Company, Defendant in Error, v. R. B. Harder, Plaintiff in Error."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice Barnes\ndelivered the opinion of the court.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Presiding Justice Barnes"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Edward R. Hartigan, for plaintiff in error.",
      "No appearance for defendant in error."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "A. L. Berry Coal Company, Defendant in Error, v. R. B. Harder, Plaintiff in Error.\nGen. No. 20,248.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nError to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Charles A. Williams, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1914.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed March 23, 1915.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by A. L. Berry Coal Company, a corporation, plaintiff, against R. B. Harder, defendant, on a promissory note made by defendant payable to the order of A. L. Berry. The note had been negotiated by the payee, thereafter was renegotiated to him, whereupon he erased the intervening indorsements and negotiated it to plaintiff.\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Bills and notes, \u00a7 322 \u2014when payee may erase indorsements and renegotiate note. Where a note which has been negotiated by the payee is negotiated back to him, he may erase the intervening indorsements and renegotiate the note, and it is no defense, in an action against the maker, that one of the intervening indorsees was a foreign corporation not licensed to do business in the State.\n2. Bills and notes, \u00a7 443*\u2014when evidence insufficient to show want of consideration, etc. Evidence examined and held insufficient to establish want of legal title, want of consideration and fraudulent organization of plaintiff.\nTo reverse a judgment for plaintiff, defendant prosecutes this writ of error.\nEdward R. Hartigan, for plaintiff in error.\nNo appearance for defendant in error.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic.and section number."
  },
  "file_name": "0084-01",
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  "last_page_order": 109
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