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  "name": "Bertha M. Doyle, Defendant in Error, v. Samuel Fallows et al., Plaintiffs in Error",
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      "Bertha M. Doyle, Defendant in Error, v. Samuel Fallows et al., Plaintiffs in Error."
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      "John Dailey, Bichard J. Cooney and John A. Verhoeven, for plaintiffs in error.",
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    "head_matter": "Bertha M. Doyle, Defendant in Error, v. Samuel Fallows et al., Plaintiffs in Error.\nGen. No. 23,547. (Not to be reported in full.)\nError to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. William N. Gem mill, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in this court at the October term, 1917.\nReversed and remanded.\nOpinion filed January 28, 1918.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Bertha M. Doyle, plaintiff, against Samuel Fallows and others, defendants, to recover for services as stenographer and secretary to the finance committee of the Illinois Commission of Lincoln Jubilee and Half-Century Anniversary Exposition and for moneys advanced in the business of the Commission. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendants bring error.\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Municipal Court of Chicago, \u00a7 13 \u2014when statement of claim in action for services insufficient as basis for judgment. Judgment held Improperly entered against the defendants where the statement of claim made no mention of their names or of employment by-them or of services rendered to thena, but averred only a hiring of plaintiff by a certain commission, in an action to recover for services rendered to a committee of such commission and for moneys advanced in its business.\n2. Municipal Court of Chicago, \u00a7 30*\u2014when failure of statement of claim to state cause of action is not cured. The failure of the statement of claim to state a' cause of action against the defendants because making no mention of their names or employment by them or of services rendered to them was not cured by the praecipe for summons wherein the names of the defendants were set out and they were designated as constituting a certain commission, against which commission only the statement of claim set up a cause of action.\n\u20223. Judgment, \u00a7 190*\u2014necessity of against all joint defendants. \"Where a joint liability is charged against several defendants, judgment must r,un against all or none, and may not be entered against a part only.\nThe statement of claim averred plaintiff was \u201chired\u201d by the Commission, but made no averment of employment by the defendants or \u00f3f services rendered to them, or mention of their names.\nSee also, Doyle v. Fallows, 207 Ill. App. 5.\nJohn Dailey, Bichard J. Cooney and John A. Verhoeven, for plaintiffs in error.\nD. K. Cochrane, for defendant in error.\nIllinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
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