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  "id": 2968379,
  "name": "Chicago Washed Coal Company, Appellant, v. R. C. Whitsett and A. H. Whitsett, copartners, trading as R. C. Whitsett Coal & Mining Company, Appellees",
  "name_abbreviation": "Chicago Washed Coal Co. v. Whitsett",
  "decision_date": "1916-10-10",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 21,663",
  "first_page": "484",
  "last_page": "484",
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      "cite": "201 Ill. App. 484"
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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": [
      "Chicago Washed Coal Company, Appellant, v. R. C. Whitsett and A. H. Whitsett, copartners, trading as R. C. Whitsett Coal & Mining Company, Appellees."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice McDonald\ndelivered the opinion of the court.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice McDonald"
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    "attorneys": [
      "George C. Otto, for appellant.",
      "Pomeroy & Martin, for appellee R. C. Whitsett."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Chicago Washed Coal Company, Appellant, v. R. C. Whitsett and A. H. Whitsett, copartners, trading as R. C. Whitsett Coal & Mining Company, Appellees.\nGen. No. 21,663.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAbstract of the Decision.\nSales, \u00a7 364 \u2014when party in default may not maintain action for breach of contract. Where the plaintiff, after notice to it by the defendants that tbe latter would make no further shipments of coal under a contract between the parties, notified the defendants that it would insist that the shipments be made as agreed, but failed to pay, at the time agreed, for coal already shipped or to offer to make payment by setting off its damages resulting from the defendants\u2019 breach, held that as it had elected to keep the contract alive and was itself in default, it could not recover for the defendants\u2019 breach.\nAppeal from the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Jacob H. Hopkins, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1915.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed October 10, 1916.\nRehearing denied October 23, 1916.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by the Chicago Washed Coal Company, a corporation, plaintiff, against R. C. Whitsett and A. H. Whitsett, copartners, trading as R. C. Whitsett Coal & Mining Company, defendants, for breach of contract to deliver coal. From a judgment for defendants, plaintiff appeals.\nGeorge C. Otto, for appellant.\nPomeroy & Martin, for appellee R. C. Whitsett.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
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  "file_name": "0484-01",
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