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  "id": 3018908,
  "name": "John E. Merz and Charles E. Merz, Appellants, v. Leon E. Stewart, Appellee",
  "name_abbreviation": "Merz v. Stewart",
  "decision_date": "1918-07-01",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 24,000",
  "first_page": "508",
  "last_page": "509",
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    "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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    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "John E. Merz and Charles E. Merz, Appellants, v. Leon E. Stewart, Appellee."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Holdom\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\n2. Sales, \u00a7 221 \u2014 when purchaser may acquire good title. The possession of personalty is prima facie evidence of ownership, and unless a lien is reserved in accord with the statutes of the State the possessor may convey a good title to a bona fide purchaser, provided he is without notice of any intervening equities or claims.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice Holdom"
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    "attorneys": [
      "Marshall E. Gallion, for appellants.",
      "Lannen & Hickey, for appellee."
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    "head_matter": "John E. Merz and Charles E. Merz, Appellants, v. Leon E. Stewart, Appellee.\nGen. No. 24,000.\n(Not to he reported in full.)\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Conflict of laws, \u00a7 49 \u2014 when doctrine of comity between States has no application as to sale of personalty. The doctrine of comity between States has no application where an Illinois manufacturer sells a motorcycle and side car to residents of Indiana and the latter sell the property under a conditional sales contract to another person and such latter purchaser removes it from the State and sells it to a resident of Illinois, who does not know of the conditional sales contract, even though the conditional sales contract, which was unrecorded in either State, was good in Indiana between sellers and the purchaser and third persons.\nAppeal from the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. John Richabdson, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the March term, 1918.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed July 1, 1918.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction in. replevin by John E. Merz and Charles E. Merz, plaintiffs, against Leon R. Stewart, defendant, to recover a motorcycle and side car sold by plaintiffs in Indiana under a conditional sale contract to another person, who sold the car to defendant. From a judgment for defendant, plaintiffs appeal.\nMarshall E. Gallion, for appellants.\nLannen & Hickey, for appellee.\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, samo topic and section number."
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  "file_name": "0508-01",
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