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  "id": 5413539,
  "name": "Frank Alford, Defendant in Error, v. Antonia Lambert, Plaintiff in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "Alford v. Lambert",
  "decision_date": "1917-01-17",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 21,592",
  "first_page": "256",
  "last_page": "257",
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      "cite": "203 Ill. App. 256"
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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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    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Frank Alford, Defendant in Error, v. Antonia Lambert, Plaintiff in Error."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Goodwin\ndelivered the opinion of the court.",
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        "author": "Mr. Justice Goodwin"
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    "attorneys": [
      "Emil A. Meyer and Edward H. Morris, for plaintiff in error.",
      "Comerford & Cohen, for defendant in error."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Frank Alford, Defendant in Error, v. Antonia Lambert, Plaintiff in Error.\nGen. No. 21,592.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nError to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Charles N. Gooditow, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1915.\nReversed and remanded.\nOpinion filed January 17, 1917.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Frank Alford, plaintiff, against Antonia Lambert, defendant, to recover the sum of $836 alleged to be due plaintiff for work as janitor for twenty months at $35 a month, and other items, including $21 for borrowed money. From a judgment for plaintiff for $836, defendant brings error.\nEmil A. Meyer and Edward H. Morris, for plaintiff in error.\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Witnesses, \u00a7 41 \u2014when husband is competent witness for wife. In an action concerning the separate estate of a wife, her husband is a competent witness for her.\n2. Master and servant, \u00a7 82 \u2014when evidence as to amount of worlc done by servant is admissible. In an action by a janitor of an apartment building, consisting of fifteen flats, to recover, among other tilings, for his services for twenty months at $35 per month, where the defense was that defendant had not agreed to pay plaintiff anything and that he simply worked for his board and lodging, and it appeared that defendant\u2019s husband also worked in the building, held that evidence as to the amount of work which plaintiff did during the term he was with defendant was admissible for consideration in determining whether a contract had been entered into for the payment of the sum claimed per month.\nComerford & Cohen, for defendant in error.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Veis. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
  },
  "file_name": "0256-01",
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