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  "id": 5205226,
  "name": "James H. Payne v. The Chicago, R. I. & P. Ry. Co. et al., Garnishees of James E. Lee",
  "name_abbreviation": "Payne v. Chicago, R. I. & P. Ry. Co.",
  "decision_date": "1897-03-08",
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  "first_page": "38",
  "last_page": "39",
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      "cite": "69 Ill. App. 38"
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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": [
      "James H. Payne v. The Chicago, R. I. & P. Ry. Co. et al., Garnishees of James E. Lee."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Waterman\ndelivered the opinion of the Court.\nThe judgment of the Circuit Court discharging the garnishees must be affirmed, if for no other reason, because the record fails to show any evidence that the garnishees were indebted in any sum to the principal defendant, Lee.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice Waterman"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "William M. Jones and W. Ievins Culver, attorneys for appellant.",
      "Walter W. Ross, attorney for appellees; Robert Mather and W. T. Rankin, of counsel."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "James H. Payne v. The Chicago, R. I. & P. Ry. Co. et al., Garnishees of James E. Lee.\n1. Appellate Court Practice\u2014What the Record Must Show.\u2014 Where the record fails to show any evidence of the liability of 'a party sued, a judgment in his favor must be affirmed.\nDebt, with attachment in aid. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Richard S. Tuthill, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in this court at the October term, 1898.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed March 8, 1897.\nStatement of the Case.\nThis was an action of debt, with attachment in aid, brought by James H. Payne against James E. Lee, based upon a judgment in favor of the plaintiff against the principal defendant, obtained in the United States Circuit Court in and for the Southern District of Iowa, Eastern Division, at Keokuk, in the State of Iowa, on the 24th day of March, 1888, for the sum of $1,430.39 and costs, on which judgment it was asserted by affidavit there was due, on March 13, 1896, the sum of $2,112.20.\nThe appellees herein were summoned as garnishees of the principal defendant, James E. Lee.\nThe garnishees severally answered, and the principal defendant pleaded to the declaration and the cause proceeded to trial, resulting in a judgment in favor of the plaintiff (appellant) against James E. Lee, the principal defendant, for $1,687.20, and in a verdict and judgment in favor of the garnishees, who are appellees here.\nWilliam M. Jones and W. Ievins Culver, attorneys for appellant.\nWalter W. Ross, attorney for appellees; Robert Mather and W. T. Rankin, of counsel."
  },
  "file_name": "0038-02",
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