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  "name": "Pauline Roessler Kremser, Guardian, and Federal Union Surety Company, Appellees, v. Meeker-Magner Company et al., Appellants",
  "name_abbreviation": "Kremser v. Meeker-Magner Co.",
  "decision_date": "1917-12-21",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 22,924",
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    "parties": [
      "Pauline Roessler Kremser, Guardian, and Federal Union Surety Company, Appellees, v. Meeker-Magner Company et al., Appellants."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Matchett\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\n3. Evidence, \u00a7 128 \u2014necessity of foundation for admission of copy of receipt. A purported copy of a certain receipt was improperly received in evidence in the absence of proof to lay the foundation for its introduction.\n4. Appear and error, \u00a7 1793*\u2014when judgment reversed as to all defendants. A judgment in trover which is erroneous as to some defendants must be reversed as to all.",
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    "attorneys": [
      "Elbribge Hanecy and William A. Bogan, for appellants.",
      "Huttmantn\", Cloyes & Carr, for appellees."
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    "head_matter": "Pauline Roessler Kremser, Guardian, and Federal Union Surety Company, Appellees, v. Meeker-Magner Company et al., Appellants.\nGen. No. 22,924. (Not to be reported in full.)\nAppeal from the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Peter C. Walters, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1916.\nReversed and remanded.\nOpinion filed December 21, 1917.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Pauline Roessler Kremser, formerly known as Pauline M. Roessler, guardian of the person and estate of Fedora Roessler and Carl Roessler, minors, and Federal Union Surety Company,, plaintiffs, against Meeker-Magner Company, a corporation, William A. Rogan and Thomas J. Magner, defendants, in replevin, to recover possession of nine certain bonds and coupons thereto attached, upon nondelivery of which on the writ statement of claim in trover was filed by leave of court. From a judgment for plaintiffs, defendants appeal.\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Corporations, \u00a7 322 \u2014when evidence is insufficient to show individual liability of defendants. Evidence held insufficient to show cause of action against certain individual defendants, one an official of the defendant corporation and the other attorney for the latter, in an action of trover for conversion of certain property.\n2. Evidence, \u00a7 185*\u2014when conversation with one not agent inadmissible to bind another. A conversation of plaintiff\u2019s attorney testified to by him with one defendant not an agent for another defendant, tending to show a cause of action against the latter, was inadmissible as against the latter.\nThe plaintiff Surety Company, for which the defendant corporation was agent, signed as surety the bond of plaintiff guardian in the Probate Court, who deposited the bonds in question with the defendant corporation, taking its receipt therefor, which stated \u201cto be held by us in connection with joint control,\u2019\u2019 the joint control referred to being that of the guardian and the Surety Company. The bonds were stolen by one of defendant corporation\u2019s employees, and were recovered by the corporation after suit. The corporation claimed expenses and attorney\u2019s fees incurred in recovering possession, and the right to hold the property until these were paid. Defendant Bogan was the corporation\u2019s attorney.\nElbribge Hanecy and William A. Bogan, for appellants.\nHuttmantn\", Cloyes & Carr, for appellees.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
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