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  "name": "The People of the State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, v. Illinois Life Insurance Company and William T. Pursell, Plaintiffs in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "People v. Illinois Life Insurance",
  "decision_date": "1916-11-14",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 21,456",
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    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
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    "name_long": "Illinois",
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    "parties": [
      "The People of the State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, v. Illinois Life Insurance Company and William T. Pursell, Plaintiffs in Error."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice MoGcorty\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\n2. Insurance, \u00a7 17 \u2014who may sue for penalty. The Act of 1891, sec. 3 (J. & A. If 6493), relating to penalties for violation of the prohibition of the act against discrimination between insurance companies as to rates, etc., providing that such penalty shall \u201cbe sued for and recovered in the name of the People of the State of Illinois, by the State\u2019s Attorney,\u201d is explicit in its terms and excludes every other method of procedure to recover such penalty.",
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        "author": "Mr. Justice MoGcorty"
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    "attorneys": [
      "Henry W. Price and Hugh T. Martin, for plaintiffs in error.",
      "Maclay Hoyne, for defendant in error; Albert F. Mecklenburger, of counsel."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "The People of the State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, v. Illinois Life Insurance Company and William T. Pursell, Plaintiffs in Error.\nGen. No. 21,456.\n(Not to he reported in full.)\nError to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. John Coubtney, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1915.\nReversed and remanded.\nOpinion filed November 14, 1916.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by the People of the State of Illinois, plaintiff, against\" the Illinois Life Insurance Company, a corporation, and William T. Pursell, defendants, in the Municipal Court of Chicago, to recover penalties provided by the Act of 1891, sec. 3 (J. & A. ft 6493). To reverse a judgment for the People for seven hundred dollars and costs, defendants prosecute a writ of error.\nHenry W. Price and Hugh T. Martin, for plaintiffs in error.\nMaclay Hoyne, for defendant in error; Albert F. Mecklenburger, of counsel.\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. State\u2019s Attorney, \u00a7 3 \u2014when appointment by letter of State\u2019s Attorney insufficient. A letter from the State\u2019s Attorney authorizing an attorney to act as special attorney in a particular ease is without effect in the absence of an order of the court to that effect, since such an appointment is a judicial act, and a court speaks only by its record.\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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