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  "id": 5420282,
  "name": "Fred Pierce, Appellee, v. Village of North Utica, Appellant",
  "name_abbreviation": "Pierce v. Village of North Utica",
  "decision_date": "1916-08-10",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 6,294",
  "first_page": "527",
  "last_page": "527",
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      "cite": "200 Ill. App. 527"
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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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    "batch": "2018"
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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Fred Pierce, Appellee, v. Village of North Utica, Appellant."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Carnes\ndelivered the opinion of the court.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice Carnes"
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    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Melville W. Clark, for appellant.",
      "W. A. Panneck, for appellee."
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    "head_matter": "Fred Pierce, Appellee, v. Village of North Utica, Appellant.\nGen. No. 6,294.\n(Not to he reported in full.)\nAbstract of the Decision.\nMunicipal corporations, \u00a7 158 \u2014when power to make contract for nursing. A village has the power to make a valid contract with one to act as attendant upon a smallpox patient and to make his quarantine effective.\nAppeal from the Circuit Court of La Salle county; the Hon. Edgar Eldeedge, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the April term, 1916.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed August 10, 1916.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Fred Pierce, plaintiff, against Village of North Utica, defendant, on a contract for services. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.\nThe defendant contracted to pay the plaintiff three dollars a day to take charge of one afflicted with smallpox, who was confined in a house in the village.\nThe house was quarantined and a police officer brought food to plaintiff and the patient. The plaintiff took charge of the food and remained in the house, making sure of the desired end that no one should be permitted to come in contact with the sick man.\nMelville W. Clark, for appellant.\nW. A. Panneck, for appellee.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Voli. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
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