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  "id": 5823320,
  "name": "Albert Hassell, Appellee, v. State Bank of West Pullman, Appellant",
  "name_abbreviation": "Hassell v. State Bank of West Pullman",
  "decision_date": "1918-04-29",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 23,816",
  "first_page": "373",
  "last_page": "374",
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    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
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    "name_long": "Illinois",
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    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Albert Hassell, Appellee, y. State Bank of West Pullman, Appellant."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Dever\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\n3. Municipal Court of Chicago, \u00a7 28 \u2014when statement of claim in action of fourth class for paying check on forged indorsement deemed sufficient in absence of objections in trial court. In a fourth-class case in the Municipal Court of Chicago for paying, on a forged indorsement, a check drawn payable .to plaintiff\u2019s order, a statement of claim which charges the payment of the check by defendant to a third person without plaintiff\u2019s authority or indorsement is, in the absence of objections thereto at the trial, sufficient to support a judgment for plaintiff.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice Dever"
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    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Harry A. Biossat, for appellant.",
      "Sinden, Hassell & Osusky and C. P. Gardner,, for appellee; John H. McAuliffe, of counsel."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Albert Hassell, Appellee, y. State Bank of West Pullman, Appellant.\nGen. No. 23,816.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Municipal Court of Chicago, \u00a7 13 \u2014what is form of cases of fourth class. The form of cases of the fourth class in the Municipal Court of Chicago is to be regarded as whatever the evidence makes it.\n2. Municipal Court of Chicago, \u00a7 13*\u2014when action of fourth class is in tort for conversion. Where the evidence introduced on the trial of a fourth-class case in the Municipal Court of Chicago by the payee of a check against the bank for paying the check on a forged indorsement shows an actual conversion of plaintiff\u2019s check by defendant, the action will be held to be one in tort for conversion.\nAppeal from the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Arnold Heap, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in this court at the October term, 1917.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed April 29, 1918.\nStatement of the Case.\nTrover by Albert Hassell, plaintiff, against State Bank of West Pullman, defendant, to recover on a check drawn to plaintiff\u2019s order and paid by defendant on a forged indorsement. From a judgment for plaintiff for $300, defendant appeals.\nHarry A. Biossat, for appellant.\nSinden, Hassell & Osusky and C. P. Gardner,, for appellee; John H. McAuliffe, of counsel.\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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