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  "id": 2944954,
  "name": "W. C. Swigart, Appellant, v. Harry J. Stoops et al., Appellees",
  "name_abbreviation": "Swigart v. Stoops",
  "decision_date": "1917-02-19",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 22,513",
  "first_page": "194",
  "last_page": "195",
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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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  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "W. C. Swigart, Appellant, v. Harry J. Stoops et al., Appellees."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Dever\ndelivered the opinion of the court.",
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        "author": "Mr. Justice Dever"
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    "attorneys": [
      "Harry A. Biossat, for appellant.",
      "Henry R. Baldwin, for appellees."
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    "head_matter": "W. C. Swigart, Appellant, v. Harry J. Stoops et al., Appellees.\nGen. No. 22,513.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAppeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Thomas G. Windes, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1916.\nReversed and remanded with directions.\nOpinion filed February 19, 1917.\nStatement of the Case.\nSuit by W. C. Swigart, complainant, against Harry J. Stoops, Frank McKey, trustee in bankruptcy of the estate of Harry J. Stoops, bankrupt, C. C. Mitchell and Bates Machine Company, a corporation, defendants, to foreclose upon two certificates of stock, of the par value of $5,000 each, in the defendant Bates Machine Company, held by the complainant as security for the payment of certain notes given by the bankrupt, to which the defendant C. C. Mitchell filed a cross-bill claiming ownership of the certificates of stock. From a decree in favor of the cross-complainant, complainant appeals.\nThese certificates of stock were originally issued to the defendant C. C. Mitchell, who indorsed them in blank and delivered them to the defendant Harry J. Stoops, who gave Mitchell a trust receipt agreeing to return the certificates on or before a certain date. Stoops then delivered the certificates to complainant as collateral security for Stoops\u2019 notes for an amount then due from him to complainant on other notes which were secured by a mortgage on certain lands, which mortgage complainant thereupon released. Stoops was thereafter adjudicated a bankrupt. He permitted a decree pro confesso to be entered against him in this suit.\nAbstract of the Decision.\nCorporations, \u00a7 152 \u2014when pledgee may foreclose security as against true owner. Where a party in good faith in the usual course of business for value took certain certificates of stock indorsed in blank as collateral security for certain notes evidencing a debt then due him from the party delivering to him such certificates, held that such party so taking such certificates would be entitled to maintain a bill to foreclose such security as against the true owner of the certificates who had indorsed and delivered them in trust to the party who had so pledged them, notwithstanding the latter\u2019s conduct was grossly fraudulent as to the true owner.\nHarry A. Biossat, for appellant.\nHenry R. Baldwin, for appellees.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
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  "file_name": "0194-01",
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