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  "id": 5412378,
  "name": "James M. Fair, Defendant in Error, v. City of Chicago, Plaintiff in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "Fair v. City of Chicago",
  "decision_date": "1916-11-14",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 21,772",
  "first_page": "53",
  "last_page": "54",
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      "cite": "202 Ill. App. 53"
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
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    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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  "provenance": {
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    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "James M. Fair, Defendant in Error, v. City of Chicago, Plaintiff in Error."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice McGoorty\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\n2. Civil service, \u00a7 6a \u2014when evidence insufficient to show certification of city employee. In an action by a city employee to recover wages during a period when he claims he was illegally laid off, where plaintiff alleges that he was duly certified by the Civil Service Commission as such employee, a finding for plaintiff held against the manifest weight of the evidence where there was no competent evidence, by record of such commission or otherwise, of such certification.\n3. Civil service, \u00a7 25*\u2014when case remanded on reversal.. In an action by a city employee to recover wages during a period when he claims he was illegally laid off, where plaintiff alleges that he was duly certified by the Civil Service Commission as such employee, but offers no competent evidence, by record of such commission or otherwise, of such certification, the case will, on reversal for want of such evidence, he remanded where it appears that the court and plaintiff's counsel proceeded on the theory that proof of certification was unnecessary, since but for such ruling other evidence \u00a1might have been introduced in support of plaintiff\u2019s contention.",
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        "author": "Mr. Justice McGoorty"
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    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Samuel A. Ettelson, for plaintiff in. error; Roy S. Gaskill and John A. Cooke, of counsel.",
      "A. D. Gash, for defendant in error."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "James M. Fair, Defendant in Error, v. City of Chicago, Plaintiff in Error.\nGen. No. 21,772.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nError to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Joseph S. La But, 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 James M. Fair, plaintiff, against the City of Chicago, defendant, in the Municipal Court of Chicago, to recover for wages. To reverse a judgment for plaintiff for $124.25, defendant prosecutes this writ of error.\nSamuel A. Ettelson, for plaintiff in. error; Roy S. Gaskill and John A. Cooke, of counsel.\nA. D. Gash, for defendant in error.\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Civil service, \u00a7 6a \u2014when motion to find issues for defendant erroneously denied,. In an action by a city employee to recover wages during a period when he claims he was illegally laid off, where plaintiff alleges that he was duly certified by the. Civil Service Commission as such employee, a motion to find the issues for defendant is erroneously denied where there is no competent evidence, by record of such commission or otherwise, that plaintiff was certified as alleged.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, sam topic and section number.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and\" Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
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