{
  "id": 869053,
  "name": "Wolf Maize Hills v. John W. Stevenson",
  "name_abbreviation": "Wolf Maize Hills v. Stevenson",
  "decision_date": "1896-01-22",
  "docket_number": "",
  "first_page": "292",
  "last_page": "292",
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      "cite": "62 Ill. App. 292"
    }
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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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    "batch": "2018"
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    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Wolf Maize Hills v. John W. Stevenson."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Waterman\ndelivered the opinion of the Court.\nThe suit is to recover, not for work done, but for a breach of contract.\nAppellant admits that it endeavored to induce appellee to work the balance of the year for $10 per week, as the mill was not running, but denies that it discharged him.\nWe think, under the conflicting evidence, that the jury were warranted in finding the issue for appellee.\nThe judgment of the Superior Court is affirmed.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice Waterman"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Charles F. Morse, attorney for appellant.",
      "Ho appearance for appellee."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Wolf Maize Hills v. John W. Stevenson.\n1. Verdicts\u2014Conflicting Evidence\u2014Conclusive.\u2014Where the evidence is conflicting, the verdict is conclusive.\nAssumpsit.\u2014Breach of contract. Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. William G. Ewing. Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1895.\nA ffirmed.\nOpinion filed January 22, 1896.\nStatement of the Case.\nThis action was brought by John W. Stevenson against the Wolf Maize Mills, a corporation, before a justice of the ' peace for Cook county, Illinois, by whom a judgment was rendered on December 11, 1894, in favor of the plaintiff for $140 and costs.\nFrom this judgment the defendant on December 29,1894, appealed to the Superior Court of Cook County, and the case was tried de novo in said Superior Court on April 1, 1895, by a jury. A verdict was rendered for the plaintiff in the sum of $206, from which the plaintiff remitted $6. A motion for a new trial was overruled, an exception taken by the defendant, and judgment rendered by the court for the plaintiff for $200 and costs.\nThe contract was a hiring for one year at $20 per week.\nCharles F. Morse, attorney for appellant.\nHo appearance for appellee."
  },
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  "last_page_order": 288
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