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  "name": "Benjamin Heller, Appellee, v. Franklin-Butler Motors, Inc., Appellant",
  "name_abbreviation": "Heller v. Franklin-Butler Motors, Inc.",
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      "Benjamin Heller, Appellee, v. Franklin-Butler Motors, Inc., Appellant."
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        "text": "Mr. Justice Barnes\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\nThis is an appeal from a judgment entered on the verdict of the jury for $1,500, in plaintiff\u2019s favor, in an action of trespass on the case on promises. When the case went to the jury two counts remained in the declaration, one charging the breach of an express warranty, the other, the breach of an implied warranty, in the sale of an automobile by defendant to plaintiff.\nThe former charged that defendant promised that said automobile would be sound, mechanically perfect and otherwise free from defects. But there was no proof to support it. The latter is based upon a written contract describing the automobile and containing the following provision:\n\u201cThere are no understandings, agreements, warranties or representations, verbal or written, not specified herein respecting the goods hereby purchased.\u201d\nThe implied warranty relied upon is that provided under section 15 clause (2) of the Uniform Sales Act, Cahill\u2019s St. ch. 121a, 18, clause (2), that the goods shall be of a merchantable quality where bought by description from a seller dealing in goods of that description. No question arises but that the sale was of that character. Defendant, however, relies upon Section 71 of said Act, Cahill\u2019s St. ch. 121a, jf 74, which provides that:\n\u201cWhere any right, duty or liability would arise under a contract to sell or a sale by implication of law, it may be negatived or varied by express agreement, \u2019 \u2019 and contends that the provision in question constitutes such an express agreement, citing in support of the contention, Sterling-Midland Coal Co. v. Great Lakes Coal & Coke Co., 334 Ill. 281. There the provision construed as negativing and excluding all implied warranties (p. 291) reads as follows:\n\u201cThere are no understandings or agreements relative to this contract or its subject matter' that are not fully expressed herein.\u201d\nComparing its language with that of the provision in question there would seem to be little room for argument for a different construction of the latter. The principal distinction contended for by plaintiff is placed upon the effect of the words \u201cverbal or written.\u201d He contends that as they can be properly applied only to an express agreement they manifest an intention to limit the provision to an express agreement only. Instead of their so restricting the negations, we think they were reasonably intended to make them as comprehensive as possible, and fail to see any good ground for construing the provision in the case at bar differently from that construed as aforesaid by the Supreme Court.\nIt follows, then, that as there was no proof of a breach of an express warranty, and as a proper construction of the other count precludes the theory of an implied warranty, there was no question for submission to the jury and the court erred in not directing a verdict for defendant as asked for.\nThis conclusion renders it unnecessary to consider defendant\u2019s other assigned errors as, for the reasons stated, the judgment must be reversed as a matter of law.\nReversed.\nSoanlan, P. J., and Cridley, J., concur.",
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        "author": "Mr. Justice Barnes"
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    "attorneys": [
      "William McKinley and Paul E. Price, for appellant.",
      "Altheimer & Mayer, for appellee; A. B. Manion, Sylvan S. Rosenbaum and Alan J. Altheimer, of counsel."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Benjamin Heller, Appellee, v. Franklin-Butler Motors, Inc., Appellant.\nGen. No. 34,392.\nHeard in the second division of this court for the first district at the June term, 1930.\nOpinion filed December 16, 1930.\nWilliam McKinley and Paul E. Price, for appellant.\nAltheimer & Mayer, for appellee; A. B. Manion, Sylvan S. Rosenbaum and Alan J. Altheimer, of counsel."
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