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  "id": 2911425,
  "name": "Peter Lorenz, trading as Lorenz Motor Service, Appellee, v. Hans P. Jensen and Niels M. Steenhill, Appellants",
  "name_abbreviation": "Lorenz v. Jensen",
  "decision_date": "1918-03-05",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 23,613",
  "first_page": "484",
  "last_page": "485",
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      "cite": "209 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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    "parties": [
      "Peter Lorenz, trading as Lorenz Motor Service, Appellee, v. Hans P. Jensen and Niels M. Steenhill, Appellants."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice Holdom\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\n3. Costs, \u00a7 67*\u2014when statutory damages for vexatious appeal assessed. When the defenses interposed in an action against the owner of an apartment building to recover a balance due for coal lack merit and are interposed for delay, statutory damages will be assessed.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Presiding Justice Holdom"
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    "attorneys": [
      "Sonnenschein, Berkson & Lautmann, for appellants.",
      "T. P. Monahan, for appellee."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Peter Lorenz, trading as Lorenz Motor Service, Appellee, v. Hans P. Jensen and Niels M. Steenhill, Appellants.\nGen. No. 23,613. (Not to be reported in full.)\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Principal and agent, \u00a7 114 \u2014when prima facie case in action to recover price of coal ordered by defendants\u2019 agent made out. In an action to recover the balance of an account for coal sold for use in defendants\u2019 apartment building, in which the defense is that defendants\u2019 agent had no authority to purchase on credit, a prima facie case is made out where plaintiff proves the ordering of the coal by the agent, the delivery to and consumption of the coal in the building, and the amount due and unpaid for such coal. .\n2. Principal and agent, \u00a7 114*\u2014when principal liable for coal ordered by agent. Irrespective of the question of the authority of/ an agent in charge of an apartment building to purchase coal on credit, the owner is liable for coal which is ordered by such agent and consumed on the premises.\nAppeal from, the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Harby P. Dolan, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in this court at the October term, 1917.\nAffirmed with $67 damages assessed against defendants.\nOpinion filed March 5, 1918.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Peter Lorenz, trading as Lorenz Motor Service, plaintiff, against Hans P. Jensen and Niels M. Steenhill, defendants, to recover for a balance due for coal for defendants\u2019 apartment building, part of which was ordered by defendants\u2019 agents. Prom a judgment for plaintiff for $672.22, defendants appeal.\nSonnenschein, Berkson & Lautmann, for appellants.\nT. P. Monahan, for appellee.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
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