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  "name": "W. E. Marquam, Appellee, v. Domestic Engineering Company, Appellant",
  "name_abbreviation": "Marquam v. Domestic Engineering Co.",
  "decision_date": "1918-04-24",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 23,527",
  "first_page": "337",
  "last_page": "338",
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
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    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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    "parties": [
      "W. E. Marquam, Appellee, v. Domestic Engineering Company, Appellant."
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    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Thomson\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Master and servant, \u00a7 14 -\u2014what constitutes hiring at will. A contract which reads that defendants \u201cdesire your [plaintiffs] seryices as editor * * * beginning the second week in October, for which we agree to pay you $50.00 per week. It is also understood that if, by the first of January, you can handle to advantage the combined editorial work and the business management, we will pay you, beginning that date, three thousand dollars per year,\u201d constitutes a hiring at will, both as to the term of the employment and the amount of the compensation.\n2. Master and servant, \u00a7 84*\u2014when evidence does not support verdict for plaintiff for services. In an action to recover an amount claimed to be due under a contract of employment, evidence held insufficient to support a verdict for plaintiff.",
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        "author": "Mr. Justice Thomson"
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    "attorneys": [
      "Moses, Rosenthal & Kennedy, for appellant; Walter Bachrach and Henry Jackson Darby, of counsel.",
      "Beach & Beach, for appellee."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "W. E. Marquam, Appellee, v. Domestic Engineering Company, Appellant.\nGen. No. 23,527.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAppeal from the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Sheridan\nB. Fry, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1917.\nReversed.\nOpinion filed April 24, 1918.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by W. E. Marquam, plaintiff, against'Domestic Engineering Company, a corporation, defendant, to recover damages for breach of a contract of employment. From a judgment for plaintiff for $300, defendant appeals.\nMoses, Rosenthal & Kennedy, for appellant; Walter Bachrach and Henry Jackson Darby, of counsel.\nBeach & Beach, for appellee.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
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