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  "name": "A. P. Sawyer v. G. K. Hazlitt et al.",
  "name_abbreviation": "Sawyer v. Hazlitt",
  "decision_date": "1890-12-11",
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  "first_page": "474",
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    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
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    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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      "A. P. Sawyer v. G. K. Hazlitt et al."
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        "text": "Per Curiam.\nThis action was brought to recover a balance due for certain composition work done on a book for appellant. The appellant sought to recoup damages for errors in setting up and proof reading, which were discovered after the electrotyping had been done, and numerous copies of the book printed. The case was tried before the court without a jury, and a portion of the damages which appellant claimed was allowed by the court, and deducted from the amount due under the contract.\nThe evidence tended to show that appellant contracted with appellees that they should do the type setting for a certain price, and that for a certain increase of price per em they agreed to do the proof reading. Appellees introduced evidence to show that appellant read the proofs himself; that all the galley proof was submitted to him, and he returned them with his O K on them. Appellant testified that he only read the proof of certain formulas contained in the book.\nThere being a conflict of evidence upon the question of who, in fact, read the proofs, the finding of the court is conclusive unless some error of law was committed.\nSeveral propositions of law were submitted to the court to be held, and his refusal to hold some of them is assigned for error.\nIn the first proposition refused the rule of damages was too broadly stated. Appellant was entitled to recoup or set off only such damage as was the necessary and probable result of the failure to read the proof correctly. The proposition states that he could set off \u201c any damage sustained.\u201d It was not error to refuse such proposition.\nThe fourth proposition was rightly refused, because it contained no hypothesis negativing appellees\u2019 claim, which there was evidence to support, that appellant himself read and O K\u2019d the proofs.\nThe third proposition is subject to the same objection. Emery v. Ginnan, 21 Ill. App. 65.\nOther propositions refused were mere finding of fact instead of propositions of law, therefore properly refused.\nThe judgment must be affirmed, no error appearing which requires its reversal.\nJudgment affirmed.",
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    "attorneys": [
      "Messrs. E. A. Aborn and H. T. Helm, for appellant.",
      "Messrs. H. C. Bennett and W. A. Phelps, for appellees."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "A. P. Sawyer v. G. K. Hazlitt et al.\nContracts\u2014Balance Due\u2014Recovery of\u2014Set-off\u2014Propositions of Law\u2014 Practice.\n1. The finding of the court upon a question of fact, the trial being had without a jury, is conclusive unless some error oE law was committed.\n2. In an action to recover a balance due for composition work done upon a book, the defendant seeking to recoup damages for errors in setting up and proof reading, this court declines to interfere with a judgment for the plaintiff.\n[Opinion filed December 11, 1890.]\nAppeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. S. P. McConnell, Judge, presiding.\nMessrs. E. A. Aborn and H. T. Helm, for appellant.\nMessrs. H. C. Bennett and W. A. Phelps, for appellees."
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