{
  "id": 2866391,
  "name": "George W. Black, Appellant, v. George W. Brown, Appellee",
  "name_abbreviation": "Black v. Brown",
  "decision_date": "1915-12-27",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 6,146",
  "first_page": "508",
  "last_page": "509",
  "citations": [
    {
      "type": "official",
      "cite": "196 Ill. App. 508"
    }
  ],
  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
  },
  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
  },
  "cites_to": [],
  "analysis": {
    "cardinality": 175,
    "char_count": 2376,
    "ocr_confidence": 0.577,
    "sha256": "67de21159d0807d1cec7090419b6b371dfc95efd238e862734064580fca03c6f",
    "simhash": "1:2fc61442a88892c8",
    "word_count": 398
  },
  "last_updated": "2023-07-14T15:31:56.876051+00:00",
  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
  },
  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "George W. Black, Appellant, v. George W. Brown, Appellee."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Carnes\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\n3. Principal and agent, \u00a7 169 \u2014what is distinction between personal liability of public agent and private agent on unauthorized contracts. There is a distinction between the personal liability of an agent of an individual and that of a public agent in respect to contracts made on behalf or the principal without authority, in that the agent of an individual is personally liable thereon, being presumed to know the extent of his authority, while a public agent is usually not liable.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice Carnes"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Fisher & North, for appellant.",
      "E. P. Lathrop, Robert Lathrop and R. H. Brown, for appellee."
    ],
    "corrections": "",
    "head_matter": "George W. Black, Appellant, v. George W. Brown, Appellee.\nGen. No. 6,146.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Officers, \u00a7 55 \u2014when not personally liable on contract. A public officer making as such a valid and enforceable contract is not personally liable on such contract for the payment of the debt.\n2. Officers, \u00a7 55 \u2014when public officer not personally liable on invalid contract. A public officer who mistakes the law and makes an invalid contract does not incur personal liability thereon in the absence of fraud or of evidence that such officer intended to bind himself personally on such contract, or that the person with whom such officer makes such contract supposed he was dealing with such officer as an individual, the person with whom the contract was made being presumed to know that such officer exceeded his powers in making the contract.\nAppeal from the Circuit Court of Winnebago county; the Hon. Arthur H. Frost, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in this court at the October term, 1915.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed December 27, 1915.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by George W. Black, plaintiff, against George W. Brown, defendant, in the Circuit Court of Winnebago county, to recover for work done by plaintiff on an alleged public and private road at the request of defendant who was then acting as highway commissioner. It was stipulated that defendant contracted with plaintiff as a town official. The case was tried by the court without a jury, and there was a finding for defendant at the close of plaintiff\u2019s evidence. A motion for a new trial was overruled. From a judgment for defendant, plaintiff appeals.\nFisher & North, for appellant.\nE. P. Lathrop, Robert Lathrop and R. H. Brown, for appellee.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
  },
  "file_name": "0508-01",
  "first_page_order": 556,
  "last_page_order": 557
}