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  "name": "Morris Sternberger, trading as Empire Furniture Company, Appellee, v. Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association, Appellant",
  "name_abbreviation": "Sternberger v. Anheuser-Busch Brewing Ass'n",
  "decision_date": "1916-11-13",
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    "parties": [
      "Morris Sternberger, trading as Empire Furniture Company, Appellee, v. Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association, Appellant."
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    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Boggs\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\n2. Corporations, \u00a7 355 \u2014when evidence sufficient to show authority of agent to make contract. Where the evidence tended to show that the manager of a beer company\u2019s office had authority to lease and rent out saloons, sell beer and collect money, and was a salesman and general man of said company, and claimed to have authority to buy certain saloon furnishings, and said company\u2019s vice president said the matter should be settled with said manager as local agent, held that the jury were warranted in finding said manager had authority to enter into a contract for the purchase of such furnishings.\n3. Corporations, \u00a7 355 \u2014when evidence is sufficient to show agency of local manager of corporation to transact business. Evidence held to show that the defendant beer company had in making a certain person manager of its local office in East St. Louis clothed him with apparent authority to transact all business of the character said company was transacting in that city, including the purchase of certain saloon furnishings.\n4. Corporations, \u00a7 355 \u2014when bound by acts of agent. A corporation is bound by the acts of its agent when it clothes such agent with apparent authority to transact certain business, even if, as a matter of fact, it has not so authorized him.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice Boggs"
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    "attorneys": [
      "Dan McG-ltnn, for appellant.",
      "Keefe & Sullivan, for appellee."
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    "head_matter": "Morris Sternberger, trading as Empire Furniture Company, Appellee, v. Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association, Appellant.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Appeal and error, \u00a7 1411 \u2014when finding of jury \"based on conflicting evidence will not be disturbed. The finding of the jury upon a disputed question of fact when amply supported by the evidence will not be disturbed.\nAppeal from the City Court of Bast St. Louis; the Hon. Robert H. FLAisrmGAN, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the March term, 1916.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed November 13, 1916.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Morris Sternberger, trading as Empire Furniture Company, plaintiff, against Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association, a corporation, defendant, to recover for certain saloon furnishings that plaintiff claimed to have sold to defendant. From a judgment in favor of plaintiff, defendant appeals.\nDan McG-ltnn, for appellant.\nKeefe & Sullivan, for appellee.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, samo topic and section number.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same $opic anfl. section number."
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