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  "id": 2920587,
  "name": "Finley Barrell, Appellant, v. Lake Forest Water Company, Appellee",
  "name_abbreviation": "Barrell v. Lake Forest Water Co.",
  "decision_date": "1917-08-07",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 6,399",
  "first_page": "484",
  "last_page": "485",
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      "cite": "208 Ill. App. 484"
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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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  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
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    "batch": "2018"
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    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Finley Barrell, Appellant, v. Lake Forest Water Company, Appellee."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Niehaus\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\n3. Pleading, \u00a7 453 \u2014when replication is waived. When a case proceeds to trial upon the pleadings and proofs without a replication being filed, replication is waived and a sworn answer has no probative force.",
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        "author": "Mr. Justice Niehaus"
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    "attorneys": [
      "Frederick Sass and A. F. Beaubien, for appellant.",
      "Cooke, Pope & Pope, for appellee."
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    "head_matter": "Finley Barrell, Appellant, v. Lake Forest Water Company, Appellee.\nGen. No. 6,399.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Waters and watercourses\u2014when not shown that water meter is defective. Evidence held sufficient to warrant the finding that allegations of a hill that defendant\u2019s meter was a \u201cfast meter\u201d and registered more water than was used hy complainant were not proved, in a suit by a water user against a water company to enjoin-it from shutting off water from complainant\u2019s premises.\n2. Appeal and error, \u00a7 1394 \u2014when decree of chancellor not disturbed. Where the proof warrants the conclusion reached hy the chancellor on the facts, the decree based thereon should not be-disturbed.\nAppeal from the Circuit Court of Lake county; the Hon. Claire C. Edwards, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the April term, 1917.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed August 7, 1917.\nStatement of the Case.\nBill by Finley Barrell, complainant, against Lake Forest Water Company, defendant, for injunction to restrain defendant from shutting off water from complainant\u2019s premises for his refusal to pay defendant\u2019s bill demanded for water theretofore furnished complainant by defendant during the months of July, August and September, 1913. From a decree dismissing the bill for want of equity, complainant appeals.\nFrederick Sass and A. F. Beaubien, for appellant.\nCooke, Pope & Pope, for appellee.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
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