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  "id": 5373619,
  "name": "Abraham Steiger, Plaintiff in Error, v. Edward F. Keebler, Defendant in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "Steiger v. Keebler",
  "decision_date": "1916-01-31",
  "docket_number": "Glen. No. 21,564",
  "first_page": "587",
  "last_page": "588",
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      "cite": "197 Ill. App. 587"
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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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  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
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    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Abraham Steiger, Plaintiff in Error, v. Edward F. Keebler, Defendant in Error."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice McSurely\ndelivered the opinion of the court.",
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        "author": "Mr. Presiding Justice McSurely"
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    "attorneys": [
      "Winston & Lowy, for plaintiff in error.",
      "Sabath, Stafford & Sabath, for defendant in error."
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    "head_matter": "Abraham Steiger, Plaintiff in Error, v. Edward F. Keebler, Defendant in Error.\nGlen. No. 21,564.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nError to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. John J. Sullivan, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in this court at the October term, 1915.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed January 31, 1916.\nRehearing denied February 14, 1916.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Abraham Steiger, plaintiff, against Edward F. Keebler, defendant, to recover on an alleged promise to repay a broker\u2019s commission under certain conditions. To reverse a judgment for defendant upon a trial without a jury, plaintiff prosecutes this writ of error.\nIt appeared that defendant secured a tenant for plaintiff\u2019s store. Plaintiff claimed that \u25a0 before he closed the lease he told defendant or his agent that another broker, named Staff, might or did claim a commission for procuring the same tenant, and that defendant said: \u201cIf you have to pay the money to the other broker we will pay this back\u201d; whereupon the transaction was closed and Keebler was paid his commission. Subsequently Staff obtained judgment against plaintiff for his commission.\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Contracts, \u00a7 385 \u2014when evidence insufficient to sustain finding that promise to repay commissions was made. In an action to recover on an alleged promise by defendant that under certain conditions he would repay a broker\u2019s commission paid by plaintiff to defendant for procuring a tenant for plaintiff\u2019s store, where the evidence was conflicting, a finding that defendant never made the promise alleged, held justified by the evidence.\n2. Principal and agent, \u00a7 8 -\u2014when evidence sufficient to sustain finding that employee had no authority to promise to repay -commissions. In an action to recover on an alleged promise by defendant that under certain conditions he would repay a broker\u2019s commission paid by plaintiff to defendant for procuring a tenant for plaintiff\u2019s store, where there was evidence that the promise alleged was made by an employee of defendant, held that such employee had no authority to bind defendant by such promise.\nPlaintiff\u2019s testimony tended to support the promise made to him, while defendant denied categorically making such agreement. There was evidence tending to show that one Gilbert Keebler, an employee of defendant, made this promise. This was denied by Gilbert Keebler.\nWinston & Lowy, for plaintiff in error.\nSabath, Stafford & Sabath, for defendant in error.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
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