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  "id": 5412968,
  "name": "Lincoln Electric Heating Appliances, Incorporated, Defendant in Error, v. Richard A. Schultz, Plaintiff in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "Lincoln Electric Heating Appliances, Inc. v. Schultz",
  "decision_date": "1917-02-07",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 21,683",
  "first_page": "340",
  "last_page": "341",
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      "cite": "203 Ill. App. 340"
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
  },
  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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    "parties": [
      "Lincoln Electric Heating Appliances, Incorporated, Defendant in Error, v. Richard A. Schultz, Plaintiff in Error."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice O\u2019Connor\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Contracts, \u00a7 329 \u2014when party accepting and paying for worlc is estopped to recover damages for defects. Where a party experienced in a particular line of business accepted and paid for work done in that line, held that such party was estopped from recovering damages because of such work.\n2. Payment, \u00a7 48 \u2014when money paid is recoverahle. Money paid upon false bills or upon bills already paid is recoverable.\n3. Damages, \u00a7 61 \u2014when judgment for loss of profits on contract is erroneous. Where a judgment for claimed loss of profits on a contract was not based upon any evidence of how much profit, if any, the plaintiff would have made on such contract or that the loss of such contract was by reason of the defendant\u2019s failure, held that such judgment was erroneous.\n4. Damages, \u00a7 190 \u2014when evidence is insufficient to authoriserecovery for depreciation in value of returned materials furnished manufacturer. Where materials belonging to the plaintiff were furnished to the defendant, a manufacturer, with which he was to manufacture certain articles for the plaintiff, and were returned to the plaintiff five or six days later'in large part in the same condition as when delivered to the defendant, and no reason for depreciation in value or evidence thereof appeared in an action against the defendant for damages, held that a judgment for the plaintiff for damages was erroneous.\n5. Damages, \u00a7 190 \u2014when evidence is insufficient to justify recovery for expenditures due to failure of manufacturer to return demanded materials. Evidence held insufficient to justify recovery for certain expenditures by plaintiff claimed as damages while its factory was idle, in an action to recover damages for failure to return materials furnished defendant with which to construct for plaintiff parts of certain lanterns.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Presiding Justice O\u2019Connor"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Vincent D. Wyman, Otto W. Jurgens and Charles E. Carpenter, for plaintiff in error.",
      "Howard Ames, for defendant in error."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Lincoln Electric Heating Appliances, Incorporated, Defendant in Error, v. Richard A. Schultz, Plaintiff in Error.\nGen. No. 21,683.\n(Not to he reported in full.)\nError to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Arthur J. Gray, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1915.\nReversed and judgment here.\nOpinion filed February 7, 1917.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Lincoln Electric Heating Appliances, incorporated, a corporation, plaintiff, against Richard A. Schultz, defendant, to recover $1,000 damages because of materials furnished to defendant with which to construct certain parts of electric lanterns for plaintiff. From a judgment for plaintiff for the amount claimed, defendant brings error.\nVincent D. Wyman, Otto W. Jurgens and Charles E. Carpenter, for plaintiff in error.\nHoward Ames, for defendant in error.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest# Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
  },
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  "last_page_order": 365
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