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  "id": 2952398,
  "name": "Louis W. Hill and Watson P. Davidson, Defendants in Error, v. Nathan Aronson, Plaintiff in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "Hill v. Aronson",
  "decision_date": "1917-03-28",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 21,807",
  "first_page": "517",
  "last_page": "518",
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      "cite": "204 Ill. App. 517"
    }
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
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    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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    "parties": [
      "Louis W. Hill and Watson P. Davidson, Defendants in Error, v. Nathan Aronson, Plaintiff in Error."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Goodwin\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\nAbstract of the Decision.\nJudgment, \u00a7 82*\u2014when affidavit in support of motion to vacate \u25a0judgment by confession under cognovit in lease presents good defense. On motion to vacate a judgment by confession taken under a cognovit contained in a lease for rent as due under the lease, defendant\u2019s affidavit in support of such motion setting forth that he had been compelled to abandon the lease by reason of the plaintiffs leasing another portion of the building for saloon purposes, contrary to a provision in defendant\u2019s lease that it was understood that the said lessor should not lease any portion of the building to any one for the purpose of retailing liquors or carrying on a saloon or buffet business, whereby it became impossible for defendant to continue in the saloon business in the building under his lease, held to present a good defense to an action on the lease for rent, so as to warrant opening up the judgment and permitting defendant to plead.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice Goodwin"
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    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Weinberg & Grollman, for plaintiff in error; Louis L. Kahn, of counsel.",
      "King, Brower & Hurlbut, for defendants in error."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Louis W. Hill and Watson P. Davidson, Defendants in Error, v. Nathan Aronson, Plaintiff in Error.\nGen. No. 21,807.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nError to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Charles A. Williams, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1915.\nReversed and remanded.\nOpinion filed March 28, 1917.\nStatement of the Case.\nJudgment by confession by Louis W. Hill and Watson P. Davidson, plaintiffs, against Nathan Aronson, defendant, under a cognovit contained in a lease. From a denial of defendant\u2019s motion to vacate same and for leave to plead, defendant brings error.\nWeinberg & Grollman, for plaintiff in error; Louis L. Kahn, of counsel.\nKing, Brower & Hurlbut, for defendants in error."
  },
  "file_name": "0517-01",
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  "last_page_order": 544
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