{
  "id": 2859110,
  "name": "Benton Warder, Defendant in Error, v. W. J. Lake, Plaintiff in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "Warder v. Lake",
  "decision_date": "1916-04-12",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 21,116",
  "first_page": "514",
  "last_page": "515",
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      "cite": "198 Ill. App. 514"
    }
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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": [
      "Benton Warder, Defendant in Error, v. W. J. Lake, Plaintiff in Error."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice Pam\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\n2. Bankruptcy, \u00a7 85*\u2014when evidence sufficient to sustain finding for plaintiff in action on discharged, account. In an action to recover the balance due on an account, where it appeared that since the cause of action accrued defendant had- been discharged in bankruptcy, but had since the discharge made a payment on account of the debt, a finding for plaintiff held not clearly and manifestly against the weight of the evidence.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Presiding Justice Pam"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Donald Grover, for plaintiff in error.",
      "M. W. Corneil, for defendant in error."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Benton Warder, Defendant in Error, v. W. J. Lake, Plaintiff in Error.\nGen. No. 21,116.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Tbial, \u00a7 305 \u2014what constitutes sufficient finding that defendant made unconditional promise to pay debt. In an action to recover the balance due on an account, where it appeared that defendant had been discharged in bankruptcy since the cause of action accrued, but had since the discharge made a payment on account of the debt, a finding and judgment for plaintiff must be taken as a finding that defendant made an unconditional promise to pay the debt at the time of the payment in question.\nError to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon, John J. Sullivan, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1915.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed April 12, 1916.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Benton Warder, plaintiff, against W. J. Lake, defendant, in the Municipal Court of Chicago, to recover a balance alleged to be due on an account for provisions. To reverse a judgment for plaintiff for $71.53, defendant prosecutes this writ of error.\nDonald Grover, for plaintiff in error.\nM. W. Corneil, for defendant in error.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic frnd section number."
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