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  "name": "Richard F. Bicknell and David Gemmill, trading as Bicknell & Gemmill, Appellants, v. Albert J. Knollin and Charles H. Shurte, trading as the Knollin Sheep Commission Company, and the Knollin Sheep Commission Company, Appellees",
  "name_abbreviation": "Bicknell v. Knollin",
  "decision_date": "1917-10-10",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 22,304",
  "first_page": "408",
  "last_page": "409",
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    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
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    "name_long": "Illinois",
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    "parties": [
      "Richard F. Bicknell and David Gemmill, trading as Bicknell & Gemmill, Appellants, v. Albert J. Knollin and Charles H. Shurte, trading as the Knollin Sheep Commission Company, and the Knollin Sheep Commission Company, Appellees."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice Goodwin\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\n2. Accord and satisfaction, \u00a7 10 \u2014 when question for jury. In an action to recover an alleged balance.of an account due to sheep shippers from commission merchants, where, at the end of the season, a check was sent by defendants to plaintiffs in payment of an account but there had been no dispute in regard to the amount due, and the check was deposited in a bank in the regular course of business and a claim afterwards made for the alleged balance, held, that it was a question for the jury whether there was an accord and satisfaction.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Presiding Justice Goodwin"
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    "attorneys": [
      "John A. Sheean, for appellants.",
      "Charles A. Butler, for appellees; Franklin Raber, of counsel."
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    "head_matter": "Richard F. Bicknell and David Gemmill, trading as Bicknell & Gemmill, Appellants, v. Albert J. Knollin and Charles H. Shurte, trading as the Knollin Sheep Commission Company, and the Knollin Sheep Commission Company, Appellees.\nGen. No. 22,304.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Accord and satisfaction, \u00a7 4 \u2014 when retention of check, constitutes. Where there is a bona fide dispute between parties as to the amount due one of them from the other, and a check is given by one party upon condition that it is to be received in full settlement of the claim, and the claimant retains possession of the check, there is an accord and satisfaction.\nAppeal from the County Court of Cook county; the Hon. Andrew D. Webb, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1916.\nReversed and remanded.\nOpinion filed October 10, 1917.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Richard F. Bicknell and David Gemmill, trading as Bicknell & Gemmill, plaintiffs, against Albert J. Knollin and Charles H. Shurte, trading as the Knollin Sheep Commission Company and the Knollin Sheep Commission Company, defendants, to recover an alleged balance on account. From a judgment for defendants, plaintiffs appeal.\nJohn A. Sheean, for appellants.\nCharles A. Butler, for appellees; Franklin Raber, of counsel.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, ant} Cumulative QUarter]\u201e saroe topic and section number. ......\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vole. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
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