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  "name": "Strawn Farmers' Elevator Company, Appellant, v. Edward P. McKenna and John A. Rodgers, trading as McKenna & Rodgers, Appellees",
  "name_abbreviation": "Strawn Farmers' Elevator Co. v. McKenna",
  "decision_date": "1915-10-05",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 20,925",
  "first_page": "490",
  "last_page": "490",
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      "cite": "194 Ill. App. 490"
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    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
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    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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    "parties": [
      "Strawn Farmers\u2019 Elevator Company, Appellant, v. Edward P. McKenna and John A. Rodgers, trading as McKenna & Rodgers, Appellees."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice McSurely\ndelivered the opinion of the court.",
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        "author": "Mr. Presiding Justice McSurely"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Norton & Ortman and Thomas J. Lawless, for appellant; Kraus, Alschuler & Holden, of counsel.",
      "Winston, Payne, Strawn & Shaw, for appellees; Walter H. Jacobs, of counsel."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Strawn Farmers\u2019 Elevator Company, Appellant, v. Edward P. McKenna and John A. Rodgers, trading as McKenna & Rodgers, Appellees.\nGen. No. 20,925.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAppeal from the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Henry C. Beitler, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in this court at the October term, 1914.\nReversed and remanded.\nOpinion filed October 5, 1915.\nAbstract of the Decision.\nCorporations, \u00a7 255 \u2014when not hound hy speculation of manager. The mere fact that speculative orders to be executed on the Chicago Board of Trade were sent in the name of a corporation hy one having a written contract with such c\u00f3rporation to act as its manager, does not bind the principal on such contracts, where such dealing is not within the general scope of the agency of such manager.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by the Strawn Farmers\u2019 Elevator Company, a corporation, plaintiff, against Edward P. McKenna and John A. Eodgers, trading as McKenna & Eodgers, defendants, in the Municipal Court of Chicago, to recover for grain sold and delivered to defendants. Defendants filed a claim of set-off, based on contracts for the future delivery of grain, made in the name of plaintiff by one who had a written contract with it to act as its manager. From a judgment favorable to defendants, plaintiff appeals.\nNorton & Ortman and Thomas J. Lawless, for appellant; Kraus, Alschuler & Holden, of counsel.\nWinston, Payne, Strawn & Shaw, for appellees; Walter H. Jacobs, of counsel.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
  },
  "file_name": "0490-01",
  "first_page_order": 512,
  "last_page_order": 512
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