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  "id": 2942566,
  "name": "Harry A. Biossat, Defendant in Error, v. B. S. Lippincott, Plaintiff in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "Biossat v. Lippincott",
  "decision_date": "1917-03-12",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 22,682",
  "first_page": "283",
  "last_page": "284",
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      "type": "official",
      "cite": "204 Ill. App. 283"
    }
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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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  "last_updated": "2023-07-14T20:49:07.214052+00:00",
  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Harry A. Biossat, Defendant in Error, v. B. S. Lippincott, Plaintiff in Error."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice McSurely\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Building and construction contracts, \u00a7 103 \u2014when evidence is sufficient to show that plat indicating repairs is basis of contract. Evidence held sufficient to show that a certain plat indicating what repairs were to be made upon defendant\u2019s property by the plaintiff\u2019s assignor was the basis of the contract sued on, in an action to recover the agreed price for the making of certain repairs on said property.\n2. Building and construction contracts, \u00a7 83*\u2014what is condition precedent to recovery on contract. Where an action was brought upon a building contract for an agreed sum for work to be done and not upon a quantum meruit, held, that there could be no recovery unless substantial compliance with the contract was shown.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Presiding Justice McSurely"
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    "attorneys": [
      "Frederic Burnham, for plaintiff in error.",
      "Harry A. Biossat, for defendant in error."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Harry A. Biossat, Defendant in Error, v. B. S. Lippincott, Plaintiff in Error.\nGen. No. 22,682.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nError to the Municipal Court, of Chicago; the Hon. Joseph S. La But, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1916.\nReversed.\nOpinion filed March 12, 1917.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Harry A. Biossat, plaintiff, against B. S. Lippincott, defendant, to recover on an account for repairing defendant\u2019s hotel and cottages at an agreed price of four hundred dollars. From a judgment for plaintiff for three hundred and fifty dollars, defendant brings error.\nPlaintiff sued as assignee of the account from John J. Sweet, who performed the services under a contract with the defendant which the defendant claimed was based upon a certain plat prepared by another party indicating the work that was to be done, which was in the possession of defendant\u2019s tenant of the property to be repaired and was delivered to Sweet who retained it, while Sweet claimed he was to do the work pointed out by the tenant only and not that called for by the plat.\nFrederic Burnham, for plaintiff in error.\nHarry A. Biossat, for defendant in error.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
  },
  "file_name": "0283-01",
  "first_page_order": 309,
  "last_page_order": 310
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