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  "id": 2421563,
  "name": "Jacob Kuhn v. City of Chicago",
  "name_abbreviation": "Kuhn v. City of Chicago",
  "decision_date": "1889-02-13",
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  "first_page": "203",
  "last_page": "204",
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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": [
      "Jacob Kuhn v. City of Chicago."
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    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Per Curiam.\nThis is an appeal from a fine imposed on appellant by the Criminal Court for violating Sec. 1711 of the city ordinances of the city of Chicago. The section is as follows:\n\u201c No pawnbroker, loan broker, or keeper of a loan office, shall, under any pretense whatever, purchase or buy any second-hand furniture, metals or clothes or any other article or thing whatever' to him or her offered as a pawn or pledge.\u201d\nOn November 4, 1887, one Mahon pledged a coat with appellant and received as a loan thereon the sum of 84.40. The next day appellant gave Mahon fifty cents additional, and the pawn ticket was surrendered with the indorsement thereon :\n\u201c Bought ticket of owner. J. Mahon.\u201d\nAppellant soon after sold the coat.\nIt is contended that the ordinance is unreasonable, because it imposes a penalty on pawnbrokers for doing that which is lawful for other persons to do. The statute authorizes cities not only to regulate pawnbrokers, but to suppress and prohibit them. Sec. 1, Art. 5, Chap. 24, R. S. The imposition of a fine for breach of a regulation applying equally to all pawnbrokers can not be said to be unreasonable. We are unable to agree with counsel that the several sections of the ordinances relating to pawnbrokers are inconsistent, or that they authorize the transaction presented in the record. The judgment of the Criminal Court is affirmed.\nJudgment affirmed.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Per Curiam."
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    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Mr. B. M. Shaffner, for appellant.",
      "Mr. Benj. F. Richolson, for appellee."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Jacob Kuhn v. City of Chicago.\nPawnbrokers\u2014Regulation of\u2014Ordinance.\nAn ordinance prohibiting the purchase of goods by pawnbrokers is not unreasonable.\n[Opinion filed February 13, 1889.]\nAppeal from the Criminal Court of Cook County; the Hon. Julius S. Gkinnell, Judge, presiding.\nMr. B. M. Shaffner, for appellant.\nMr. Benj. F. Richolson, for appellee."
  },
  "file_name": "0203-01",
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  "last_page_order": 200
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