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  "name": "Max Cohn et al., Defendants in Error, v. Morris Cohen, Plaintiff in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "Cohn v. Cohen",
  "decision_date": "1917-03-20",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 22,151",
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    "name_long": "Illinois",
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    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Max Cohn et al., Defendants in Error, v. Morris Cohen, Plaintiff in Error."
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    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice McDonald\ndelivered the opinion of the court.",
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        "author": "Mr. Justice McDonald"
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    "attorneys": [
      "B. M. Shaffner, for plaintiff in error.",
      "Isidore Fried, for defendants in error."
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    "head_matter": "Max Cohn et al., Defendants in Error, v. Morris Cohen, Plaintiff in Error.\nGen. No. 22,151.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nError to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Edward T. Wade, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1916.\nReversed.\nOpinion filed March 20, 1917.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Max Cohn and others, plaintiffs, against Morris Cohen, defendant, to recover for services rendered in moving defendant\u2019s furniture, in which defendant\u2019s affidavit of merits charged plaintiffs with negligence in such moving and damages resulting therefrom to a certain amount, and a mutual agreement of settlement of all claims by release and discharge arising out of the transaction. From a judgment for plaintiffs, defendant brings error.\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Contracts, \u00a7 385 \u2014when evidence is insufficient to sustain verdict for plaintiffs in action to recover for services rendered. In the absence of any evidence offered by the plaintiffs in support of their action, and upon the uncontradicted evidence offered by the defendant in support of his defense, held that a judgment for the plaintiffs was erroneous in an action to recover for services rendered in moving furniture.\n2. Contracts, \u00a7 70*\u2014what is valid consideration for promise. A promise constitutes a valid consideration for a promise.\nB. M. Shaffner, for plaintiff in error.\nIsidore Fried, for defendants in error.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
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