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  "name": "Edward F. Keebler, trading as E. F. Keebler & Company, Appellant, v. A. J. Franks, Appellee",
  "name_abbreviation": "Keebler v. Franks",
  "decision_date": "1918-03-13",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 23,322",
  "first_page": "118",
  "last_page": "118",
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      "cite": "210 Ill. App. 118"
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
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    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
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    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Edward F. Keebler, trading as E. F. Keebler & Company, Appellant, v. A. J. Franks, Appellee."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Thomson\ndelivered the opinion of the court.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice Thomson"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Sabath, Stafford & Sabath, for appellant; Charles B. Stafford and Thomas M. Zasadil, Jr., of counsel.",
      "Litzinger, Healy & Reid, for appellee."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Edward F. Keebler, trading as E. F. Keebler & Company, Appellant, v. A. J. Franks, Appellee.\nGen. No. 23,322.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAbstract of the Decision.\nBbokebs, \u00a7 61 \u2014when disobedience of instructions does not worh forfeiture of commissions. Where the owner of certain premises employed a real estate broker to negotiate a lease for the premises at a certain increased rental, promising to pay him a commission therefor, with specific instructions not to approach the present tenant in the matter, whom he wished to retain if possible but wished first to secure another in case the present tenant would not pay the increased rental, and the broker disregarded the instructions and approached the. tenant and secured his renewal of the lease at the increased rental, held that the broker did not forfeit his commission.\nAppeal from the Municipal Court of .Chicago; the Hon. Chaeles N. Gooditow, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1917.\nReversed and judgment here.\nOpinion filed March 13, 1918.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Edward, F. Keebler, trading as E. F. Keebler & Company, plaintiff, against A. J. Franksj defendant, to recover commissions alleged to be due for services rendered in negotiating a lease of certain property. From a judgment for defendant, on trial before the court' without a jury, plaintiff appeals.\nSabath, Stafford & Sabath, for appellant; Charles B. Stafford and Thomas M. Zasadil, Jr., of counsel.\nLitzinger, Healy & Reid, for appellee.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
  },
  "file_name": "0118-01",
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