{
  "id": 2948138,
  "name": "I. Muller, Defendant in Error, v. L. Walensky and H. Rabinovitz, Plaintiffs in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "Muller v. Walensky",
  "decision_date": "1917-03-20",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 21,551",
  "first_page": "352",
  "last_page": "352",
  "citations": [
    {
      "type": "official",
      "cite": "204 Ill. App. 352"
    }
  ],
  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
  },
  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
  },
  "cites_to": [],
  "analysis": {
    "cardinality": 124,
    "char_count": 1447,
    "ocr_confidence": 0.555,
    "sha256": "9f3b2e57bbb2096f9df544939b2e0635c8b5913ec97246c64cd3af2247cd3ee8",
    "simhash": "1:58cef085746f02f4",
    "word_count": 237
  },
  "last_updated": "2023-07-14T20:49:07.214052+00:00",
  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
  },
  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "I. Muller, Defendant in Error, v. L. Walensky and H. Rabinovitz, Plaintiffs in Error."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice Barnes delivered\nthe opinion of the court.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Presiding Justice Barnes delivered"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "H. J. Rosenberg, for plaintiffs in error.",
      "No appearance for defendant in error."
    ],
    "corrections": "",
    "head_matter": "I. Muller, Defendant in Error, v. L. Walensky and H. Rabinovitz, Plaintiffs in Error.\nGen. No. 21,551.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAbstract of the Decision.\nMunicipal Court of Chicago, \u00a7 13 \u2014when striking of affidavit of merits from files is erroneous. In an action in the Municipal Court to recover against the makers of a promissory note, where the defendants filed an affidavit of merits pleading a total failure of consideration and stating, in substance, that the note was given for work of a specific kind to be done, that was never performed, held that the striking of such affidavit from the files was erroneous, especially under the liberal form of pleading in the Municipal Court, and that the defendants were entitled to make their defense upon the facts pleaded.\nError to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Charles A. Williams, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1916.\nReversed and remanded.\nOpinion filed March 20, 1917.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by I. Muller, plaintiff, against L. Walensky and H. Rabinovitz, defendants, to recover upon two promissory notes executed by defendants. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendants bring error.\nH. J. Rosenberg, for plaintiffs in error.\nNo appearance for defendant in error.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
  },
  "file_name": "0352-01",
  "first_page_order": 378,
  "last_page_order": 378
}