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  "name": "Albert Pirek, Appellee, v. Frank E. Scott, Appellant",
  "name_abbreviation": "Pirek v. Scott",
  "decision_date": "1917-05-31",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 22,018",
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    "name_long": "Illinois",
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    "parties": [
      "Albert Pirek, Appellee, v. Frank E. Scott, Appellant."
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    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Goodwin\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\n2. Witnesses, \u00a7 279*\u2014what is admissible to contradict witness. A letter written by a witness which tended to contradict him, held properly admitted.\n3. Appeal and error, \u00a7 1514*\u2014when improper remarles of counsel are harmless error. In an action to recover money loaned, the act of plaintiff\u2019s counsel in referring to plaintiff as a \u201cpoor workingman\u201d is not ground for reversal where, on objection, the word \u201cpoor\u201d was withdrawn and it was admitted that plaintiff was not poor.\n4. Appeal and error, \u00a7 1514*\u2014when error in conduct of counsel is harmless. Where a reference by plaintiff\u2019s counsel to defendant\u2019s witness as a \u201cliar\u201d is objected to and on defendant\u2019s motion is stricken from the record, there is no reversible error.",
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        "author": "Mr. Justice Goodwin"
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    "attorneys": [
      "Mayer, Meyer, Austrian & Platt, for appellant.",
      "William J. Dillon, for appellee."
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    "head_matter": "Albert Pirek, Appellee, v. Frank E. Scott, Appellant.\nGen. No. 22,018.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Assumpsit, Action of, \u00a7 89 \u2014when evidence sufficient to show loan to defendant personally. In an action to recover money loaned defendant, which plaintiff claimed was loaned defendant personally, while defendant claimed it was loaned to a company of which he was president and the notes of which plaintiff received, evidence held sufficient to support a finding for plaintiff.\nAppeal from the County Court of Cook county; the Hon. J. J. Cooke, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1916.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed May 31, 1917.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Albert Pirek, plaintiff, against Frank E. Scott, defendant, for money had and received. From a judgment for plaintiff for six hundred dollars, defendant appeals.\nMayer, Meyer, Austrian & Platt, for appellant.\nWilliam J. Dillon, for appellee.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
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