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  "id": 2911386,
  "name": "James O'Meara, Appellee, v. Crane Company, Appellant",
  "name_abbreviation": "O'Meara v. Crane Co.",
  "decision_date": "1918-02-12",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 6,528",
  "first_page": "28",
  "last_page": "29",
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      "cite": "209 Ill. App. 28"
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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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  "last_updated": "2023-07-14T15:09:41.322311+00:00",
  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "James O\u2019Meara, Appellee, v. Crane Company, Appellant."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice Carnes\ndelivered the opinion of the court.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Presiding Justice Carnes"
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    "attorneys": [
      "Cornelius Beardon, for appellant.",
      "Butters & Clark, for appellee."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "James O\u2019Meara, Appellee, v. Crane Company, Appellant.\nGen. No. 6,528. (Not to be reported in full.)\nAppeal from the Circuit Court of La Salle county; the Hon. Edgar Eldbedge, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in this court at the October term, 1917.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed February 12, 1918.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by James O\u2019Meara, plaintiff, against Crane Company, defendant, before a justice of the peace to recover damages for injuries to plaintiff\u2019s two horses loaned to one Miss A. L. Preston, claimed to be conducting a sanitarium for defendant. From a judgment for the plaintiff for $200 on appeal from a like judgment, defendant appeals.\nAbstract of the Decision.\nCorporations, \u00a7 355 \u2014when evidence shows corporation to he bailee of horses. Evidence held sufficient to warrant the finding that the defendant company was bailee of plaintiff\u2019s horses, in an action to recover damages for injuries to them while loaned to a person whom plaintiff claimed was engaged in conducting a sanitarium for defendant, as against the latter\u2019s contention that the sanitarium was not conducted by it, hut by a third person who furnished all the funds and who employed the person upon whom process was served, similar transactions previously having been recognized as company business and no objection having been made that the person on whom process was served was not an officer of the company.\nSummons was returned served on the corporation by leaving a copy with A. L. Preston, superintendent, other officers, naming them, not found in the county. The corporation appeared and defended on the merits without objecting to the service on the ground that A. L. Preston, superintendent, was not an officer of the corporation, but offered evidence that A. L. Preston was employed by one E. T. Crane, Jr., and not by defendant.\nCornelius Beardon, for appellant.\nButters & Clark, for appellee.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
  },
  "file_name": "0028-01",
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