{
  "id": 5154456,
  "name": "The Sterling Company v. C. H. Roys, for Use of, etc.",
  "name_abbreviation": "Sterling Co. v. Roys",
  "decision_date": "1895-10-31",
  "docket_number": "",
  "first_page": "438",
  "last_page": "439",
  "citations": [
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      "type": "official",
      "cite": "60 Ill. App. 438"
    }
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
  },
  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
  },
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  "last_updated": "2023-07-14T15:22:36.351146+00:00",
  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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  "casebody": {
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    "parties": [
      "The Sterling Company v. C. H. Roys, for Use of, etc."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Hr. Presiding Justice Gary\ndelivered the opinion of the Court.\nIt is unnecessary to pass upon the motion to strike out the bill of exceptions, as the case is affirmed on the merits as shown by the bill.\nThere was an agreement between the parties as follows:\n\u201c This memorandum of agreement made between the Sterling Company and C. H. Boys & Co., on this the eighteenth day of \u00a1November, A. B. 1893, witnesseth:\nThat whereas, the Sterling Company has two batteries of boilers in the main boiler room of the World\u2019s Columbian Exposition, all fully bricked in;\nAnd whereas, the said Sterling Company is desirous of having said boilers in the main boiler room dismantled and all the brick work, brick and rubbish removed from the exposition grounds, in pursuance with the agreements and regulations of the World\u2019s Columbian Exposition;\nAnd whereas, the said C. H. Boys & Co. is anxious'to undertake the removal o\u00ed said brick and rubbish, therefore it is agreed between the two parties above mentioned that the Sterling Company, in consideration of the sum of one dollar, to it in hand paid, sells and assigns to the said C. H. Boys & Co. all the brick, fire-brick, etc., used in the two batteries above mentioned, reserving, however, the special title; C. JEL Boys & Co., on its part, agreeing to remove said material from the World\u2019s Fair grounds in conformity with the rules of the Exposition Company, as above stated.\nThe Steeling- Company,\nE. B. Stettinius, Treas.\nC. H. Boys.\u201d\nTo use the boilers, an iron smokestack, standing upon a brick foundation, the nearest part of w:hich was about five feet from the boilers, was necessary. This suit is for the value of the brick in that foundation, such brick being claimed by the appellee under the contract, and having been sold by the appellant to another.\nSuch proof as there was of the value went in without objection, and there were no instructions asked. That proof showed that the brick of the foundation proved to be worth, to the purchaser, about ninety dollars; which under such circumstances justified the verdict for eighty-one dollars, if the appellee was entitled to recover at all.\nThe proper construction of the contract is that, fi all the brick, fire-brick, etc., used in the two batteries,\u201d'mean all of that kind of material which the appellant was required to remove under the rules of the exposition; which it is fair to assume\u2014in the absence of any showing\u2014required exhibitors to take away what they had brought.\nThe appellant proved that \u201c a battery of boilers consists of two boilers, side by side, built in the same brick wall, as it were, as distinguished from a single boiler which is placed separate, and has the brick work by itself.\u201d And that definition accords with the contract, which assumes that the brick-work is no part of the battery; and so when the contract speaks of the \u201c brick, fire-brick, etc., used in the batteries \u201d it means used with the batteries.\nThe judgment is affirmed.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Hr. Presiding Justice Gary"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Frank P. Blair, attorney for appellant.",
      "P. H. Bishop, attorney for appellee."
    ],
    "corrections": "",
    "head_matter": "The Sterling Company v. C. H. Roys, for Use of, etc.\n1. Construction oe Contracts\u2014Intention of the Parties.\u2014In construing a contract, the first point is to ascertain what the parties themselves meant and understood.\nAssumpsit.\u2014Appeal from the County Court of Cook County; the Hon. Orrin N. Carter, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1895.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed October 31, 1895.\nFrank P. Blair, attorney for appellant.\nP. H. Bishop, attorney for appellee."
  },
  "file_name": "0438-01",
  "first_page_order": 436,
  "last_page_order": 437
}