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  "id": 2972756,
  "name": "Anderson Computing Scale Company, Defendant in Error, v. Dena Hattenbach, Plaintiff in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "Anderson Computing Scale Co. v. Hattenbach",
  "decision_date": "1916-05-12",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 21,152",
  "first_page": "467",
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    "parties": [
      "Anderson Computing Scale Company, Defendant in Error, v. Dena Hattenbach, Plaintiff in Error."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice O\u2019Connor\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\n5. Corporations, \u00a7 710\u2014what does not constitute doing business within State by foreign corporation. Soliciting of orders in this State by an agent of a foreign corporation is not doing business by such corporation, within the meaning of the statute regulating activities of foreign corporations within the State.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice O\u2019Connor"
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    "attorneys": [
      "Wilson & Mat, for plaintiff in error.",
      "Baker & Holder, for defendant in error; W. W. \u2022Hoover, of counsel."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Anderson Computing Scale Company, Defendant in Error, v. Dena Hattenbach, Plaintiff in Error.\nGen. No. 21,152.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\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 May 12, 1916.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Anderson Computing Scale Company, plaintiff, against Dena Hattenbach, defendant, for goods sold and delivered. To reverse a judgment for plaintiff, defendant prosecutes a writ of error.\nThe plaintiff, an Indiana corporation, through its agent in Chicago, sold to the defendant, a resident of Chicago, a machine for slicing meats. The machine was delivered to the defendant and ten dollars paid on account of the purchase price.\nThe defense interposed was (1) that there was a breach of warranty, in that the machine would not properly do the work for .which it was intended; and (2) that the plaintiff was a foreign corporation not authorized to do business in this State, and could not therefore maintain this action in the courts of this State.\nThe evidence tended to show that the agents of the plaintiff solicited the order of the defendant; that the slicing machine was thereafter delivered to the defendant ; that the defendant informed the plaintiff that the machine was not workable; that plaintiff\u2019s agents thereupon called at the defendant\u2019s place of business for the purpose of remedying the defect; that the machinpi was not then in the defendant\u2019s place of business, and the defendant would not permit the plaintiff\u2019s agents to see it; that afterwards the defendant delivered the machine to an express company with instructions to return it to plaintiff; that the plaintiff would not accept the machine when the same was returned.\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Sales, \u00a7 388 \u2014what are remedies of purchaser for breach of warranty. Where there is a sale and delivery of personal property, with an express or an implied warranty, if the property is found to be defective, the purchaser may keep and use the property and sue for damages on a breach of warranty, or. when sued for the price, he may recoup such damages.\n2. Sales, \u00a7 389*\u2014when purchaser may recoup damages for breach of warranty. Where there is a warranty of goods sold, without fraud, and they have been accepted and there is no stipulation in the contract that they may be returned, the vendee has no right to annul the contract, without the consent of the vendor, for a breach-of warranty, but where sued for the purchase price, may recoup damages sustained by reason of the breach of warranty.\n3. Sales, \u00a7 404*\u2014what is measure of damages for breach of warranty. The measure of damages for breach of warranty is the difference between the value of the article as warranted, and its actual value in its alleged defective condition.\n4. Sales, \u00a7 389*\u2014when damages for breach of warranty may not be set off in action for purchase price. In an action for the purchase price of an article, no damages for breach of warranty can be set off in the absence of evidence of the amount thereof.\nIt was assumed by the court that there was an implied warranty of the machine and a breach of such warranty.\nWilson & Mat, for plaintiff in error.\nBaker & Holder, for defendant in error; W. W. \u2022Hoover, of counsel.\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."
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