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  "id": 5402522,
  "name": "Robert H. Ingersoll et al., Appellees, v. Joseph Brown & Company, Appellant",
  "name_abbreviation": "Ingersoll v. Joseph Brown & Co.",
  "decision_date": "1917-05-10",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 22,349",
  "first_page": "537",
  "last_page": "538",
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      "cite": "205 Ill. App. 537"
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    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
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    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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    "parties": [
      "Robert H. Ingersoll et al., Appellees, v. Joseph Brown & Company, Appellant."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice Barnes\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\n3. Trover and conversion, \u00a7 31 -\u2014when notice of election to rescind conditional contract of sale of goods and demand for return is essential. No right of action, in trover for goods sold and delivered upon condition that a certain balance due on a bill for other goods be paid, would accrue without notice by plaintiffs of their election to rescind the contract and a demand for the return of the goods, upon defendant\u2019s failure to make such payment.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Presiding Justice Barnes"
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    "attorneys": [
      "Hebel & Haft, for appellant.",
      "Henry W. Leman, for appellees; Frank H. Culver, of counsel."
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    "head_matter": "Robert H. Ingersoll et al., Appellees, v. Joseph Brown & Company, Appellant.\nGen. No. 22,349.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Fraud, \u00a7 19 \u2014what is not actionable. The making of a promise with intent at the time not to perform it does not constitute a fraud and is not actionable.\n2. Trover and conversion, \u00a7 31*\u2014when proof of demand and refusal essential. Where plaintiffs refused to ship to defendant certain goods ordered by defendant until a balance due on a bill for goods previously shipped to defendant was paid, and defendant promised to send a check for such balance that night but did not, and the goods were afterwards sent and delivered to defendant, against whom on the following day an involuntary petition in bankruptcy was filed, held that an action in trover based upon such facts as constituting fraudulent and wrongful possession, because, as claimed, defendant obtained the goods without intending to fulfil its promise to pay for them, would not lie without proof of demand and refusal, and motion for an instructed verdict for defendant should have been allowed.\nAppeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Mabcus Kavanagh, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1916.\nReversed and remanded.\nOpinion filed May 10, 1917.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Robert H. IngersoII and others, plaintiffs, against Joseph Brown & Company, defendant, in trover, with the conventional form of count and a count adding to the averment of defendant\u2019s knowledge that the property was plaintiffs\u2019, that defendant \u201ccontriving and fraudulently intending craftily and subtly to deceive and defraud the plaintiffs, hath not yet delivered,\u201d etc. From a judgment for plaintiffs, defendant appeals.\nHebel & Haft, for appellant.\nHenry W. Leman, for appellees; Frank H. Culver, of counsel.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vola. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vola. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
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