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  "name": "The People of the State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, v. Chipman Ratcliff, Plaintiff in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "People v. Ratcliff",
  "decision_date": "1917-04-16",
  "docket_number": "",
  "first_page": "594",
  "last_page": "594",
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      "cite": "204 Ill. App. 594"
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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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    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
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    "batch": "2018"
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    "parties": [
      "The People of the State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, v. Chipman Ratcliff, Plaintiff in Error."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice Thompson\ndelivered the opinion of the court.",
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        "author": "Mr. Presiding Justice Thompson"
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    "attorneys": [
      "Leroy Adair and William Schlagenhaue, for plaintiff in error.",
      "No appearance for defendant in error."
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    "head_matter": "The People of the State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, v. Chipman Ratcliff, Plaintiff in Error.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAbstract of the Decision.\nMalicious mischief\u2014when evidence sufficient to show lack of malice or interference with school property. In a criminal prosecution for maliciously destroying a well and pump of a schoolhouse, evidence held sufficient to show that the well and pump were not appurtenant to the school site but upon land separated therefrom by a public highway and belonging to an estate of which the defendant was an heir, and that he took possession of the land without malice and without creating any disturbance after reasonable notice to the school directors that a license for the use of the land by the school was revoked.\nError to the County Court of Adams county; the Hon. Lyman McCabl, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1916.\nReversed.\nOpinion filed April 16, 1917.\nStatement of the Case.\nProsecution by the People of the State of Illinois, plaintiff, against Chipman Ratcliff, defendant, for wilfully, maliciously and without cause destroying and injuring a well and pump appurtenant, to a certain schoolhouse. Prom a judgment finding the defendant guilty and imposing a fine of three dollars, defendant brings error.\nLeroy Adair and William Schlagenhaue, for plaintiff in error.\nNo appearance for defendant in error."
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