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  "id": 2918614,
  "name": "Henry A. Todd, Appellee, v. McKenzie Cleland, Appellant",
  "name_abbreviation": "Todd v. Cleland",
  "decision_date": "1917-12-12",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 22,942",
  "first_page": "194",
  "last_page": "195",
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      "cite": "209 Ill. App. 194"
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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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    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Henry A. Todd, Appellee, v. McKenzie Cleland, Appellant."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice McDonald\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\n2. Bills and notes, \u00a7 420*\u2014when evidence properly excluded as irrelevant in action on note. Parts of defendant\u2019s letter to plaintiff replying, to plaintiff\u2019s letter demanding payment of defendant\u2019s note which consisted of defendant\u2019s self-serving statements and charges reflecting upon plaintiff\u2019s character, which had no bearing upon the issues in the case, held, properly excluded, in an action on the note.\n3. Appeal and erbob, \u00a7 1491*\u2014when exclusion of evidence is harmless error. In an action on a note, in which defendant claimed a set-off for legal services performed in proceedings before a justice of the peace, the exclusion of the record of the proceedings offered to corroborate defendant\u2019s testimony as to the number of continuances taken in the case before the justice of the peace, while improper, was not reversible error, defendant\u2019s testimony on the point not being positively denied by any of plaintiff\u2019s witnesses.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice McDonald"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Lester E. T<f.f. and Egbert Gt. Phelps, for appellant.",
      "Beach & Beach, for appellee."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Henry A. Todd, Appellee, v. McKenzie Cleland, Appellant.\nGen. No. 22,942. (Not to be reported in full.)\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Attorney and client, \u00a7 135 \u2014when evidence sustains finding as to value of legal services. Evidence held to support a special finding of $224 as the value of defendant\u2019s legal services, where the testimony was a mere approximation of the value of the services and. the estimates varied from $26 to $500.\nAppeal from the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Hosea W. Weils, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1916.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed December 12, 1917.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Henry A. Todd, plaintiff, against McKenzie Cleland, defendant, to recover on a promissory note, to which defendant filed a set-off for $395, and interest for legal services rendered. From a judgment for plaintiff for the balance due on the note after deducting $224, on special finding as to the value of defendant\u2019s services, defendant appeals.\nLester E. T<f.f. and Egbert Gt. Phelps, for appellant.\nBeach & Beach, for appellee.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vois. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
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  "file_name": "0194-01",
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