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  "name": "T. Marshall Baxter v. Samuel T. Allen",
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      "T. Marshall Baxter v. Samuel T. Allen."
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        "text": "Mr. Justice Gary.\nThe appellant, defendant below, was a grain commission merchant on the Chicago Board of Trade, and Hodgeman & Co. were grain brokers in Bur- ' lington, Iowa. They made arrangements with each other to divide (by a subterfuge to avoid a rule of the board) the commissions on all orders sent by Hodgeman & Co., and executed by Baxter.\nHodgeman & Co., in sending orders, communicated the names of the persons from whom they had taken such orders, and the deposits on margins to indemnify Baxter in executing such orders were sent to Hodgeman & Co., and entered on the books of Baxter, to the credit of Hodgeman & Co., as being deposits or margins of the persons from whom the orders were taken. Profits made were remitted by Baxter (except in one instance not material) to Hodge-man & Co. The deals on the orders of Allen netted a profit, those of others a loss, which has not been made good to Baxter; and the question is whether Baxter may apply Allen\u2019s profits to the losses of other customers or patrons of Hodgeman & Co. This question the Circuit Court rightly decided in the negative.\nAs the evidence shows that Baxter had notice whose orders transmitted by Hodgeman & Co. were being executed, and whose money went into, or at least on what orders were made, the deposits or margins, the principle which governed the decision in Drovers Nat. Bank v. O'Hare, 119 Ill. 646, and followed here in Dumond\u2019s cases, 33 Ill. App. 95 and 102, applies.\nThe appellant asked the court to hold as a proposition of law \u201c that unless Hodgeman & Co. were * * * the agents of * * * Baxter * * * the plaintiff can not recover.\u201d It makes no difference who was agent for anybody, as to Baxter\u2019s right to apply money which he had notice was Allen\u2019s, to losses on account of others.\nThe judgment is affirmed.\nJudgment affirmed.",
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        "author": "Mr. Justice Gary."
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      "Mr. D. M. Kirton, for appellant.",
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    "head_matter": "T. Marshall Baxter v. Samuel T. Allen.\nCommission Merchants\u2014Board of Trade.\nA commission merchant upon the board of trade may not apply the gains of one patron in offsetting the losses of others.\n[Opinion filed December 8, 1892.]\nAppeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Fbancis Adams, Judge, presiding.\nMr. D. M. Kirton, for appellant.\nMessrs. Abbott & Baker, for appellee."
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