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  "id": 2895911,
  "name": "Joseph R. Dunn and George Hight, Appellees, v. B. K. Block, trading as The Empire Distillery Company et al., Defendants, on appeal of The Note, Bond & Mortgage Company of New York, Appellant",
  "name_abbreviation": "Dunn v. Block",
  "decision_date": "1915-04-28",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 21,176",
  "first_page": "486",
  "last_page": "487",
  "citations": [
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      "cite": "192 Ill. App. 486"
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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": "2023-07-14T19:32:59.384140+00:00",
  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Joseph R. Dunn and George Hight, Appellees, v. B. K. Block, trading as The Empire Distillery Company et al., Defendants, on appeal of The Note, Bond & Mortgage Company of New York, Appellant."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice Baume\ndelivered the opinion of the court.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Presiding Justice Baume"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Rosenthal & Kurz, for appellant Note, Bond & Mortgage Company.",
      "E. H. Wright and W. G. Anderson, for appellees."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Joseph R. Dunn and George Hight, Appellees, v. B. K. Block, trading as The Empire Distillery Company et al., Defendants, on appeal of The Note, Bond & Mortgage Company of New York, Appellant.\nGen. No. 21,176.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nInterlocutory appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Thomas G. Windes, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed April 28, 1915.\nRehearing denied Stay 12, 1915.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Joseph R. Dunn and George Hight in the Circuit Court of Cook county against B. K. Block trading as The Empire Distillery Company, The Note, Bond & Mortgage Company of New York, a corporation, and Anton J. Cermak, a bailiff of the Municipal Court of Chicago, on appeal of The Note, Bond & Mortgage Company of New York, a corporation, from an interlocutory order of the Circuit Court overruling appellant\u2019s motion to dissolve a temporary injunction.\nAbstract of the Decision.\nBills and notes, \u00a7 406*\u2014when burden on transferee to show that he was a holder in due course. Bill seeking to enjoin the collection of notes by a transferee, alleging that the payee therein secured the execution of the notes upon the agreement that the maker could elect to cancel same if under certain circumstances, within two days after their delivery and, on exercising such election, the payee refused to return the notes, held to state facts showing that the payee\u2019s title was defective within the meaning of section 55 of the Negotiable Instruments Act (J. & A. If 7694), placing the burden upon the transferee of showing that he was a holder in due course under section 59 of that act (J. & A. V 7698).\nRosenthal & Kurz, for appellant Note, Bond & Mortgage Company.\nE. H. Wright and W. G. Anderson, for appellees."
  },
  "file_name": "0486-01",
  "first_page_order": 510,
  "last_page_order": 511
}