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  "id": 2877698,
  "name": "Alcazar Amusement Company, Plaintiff in Error, v. Paul Pereira, Defendant in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "Alcazar Amusement Co. v. Pereira",
  "decision_date": "1915-10-05",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 20,188",
  "first_page": "507",
  "last_page": "508",
  "citations": [
    {
      "type": "official",
      "cite": "194 Ill. App. 507"
    }
  ],
  "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": "2023-07-14T16:49:21.752065+00:00",
  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Alcazar Amusement Company, Plaintiff in Error, v. Paul Pereira, Defendant in Error."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Baker\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\n2. Contracts, \u00a7 351 \u2014when action may he maintained on invalid writing. An action on an invalid written contract may be maintained if there is in the statement of claim an allegation of a verbal contract sufficient to support the action.\n3. Appearance, \u00a7 12 \u2014when confers jurisdiction. In an action where defendant has entered an appearance, held error to allow a motion to dismiss on the ground of want of jurisdiction, for the reason that in such case the court has jurisdiction to try all issues.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice Baker"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "George C. Otto and Frank P. Leffingwell, for plaintiff in error.",
      "Adolph Marks, for defendant in error."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Alcazar Amusement Company, Plaintiff in Error, v. Paul Pereira, Defendant in Error.\nGen. No. 20,188.\n(Not to foe reported in full.)\nError to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. John K. Prin-Divm-B, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in this court at the March term, 1915.\nReversed and remanded.\nOpinion filed October 5, 1915.\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Contracts, \u00a7 53 \u2014when invalid. A written contract signed by one who is not named in the body of the instrument as one of the contracting parties is invalid.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by the Alcazar Amusement Company, a corporation, plaintiff, against Paul Pereira, defendant, to recover on a written contract which did not, in the body of the instrument, name the defendant as a party, though he signed it. The defendant entered an appearance, and his motion to dismiss for want of jurisdiction was allowed.\nTo reverse a judgment for defendant for costs, plaintiff prosecutes this writ of error.\nGeorge C. Otto and Frank P. Leffingwell, for plaintiff in error.\nAdolph Marks, 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 topic and section number."
  },
  "file_name": "0507-01",
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  "last_page_order": 530
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