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  "id": 5264806,
  "name": "Richard P. Leahy v. Stanley Wojdak",
  "name_abbreviation": "Leahy v. Wojdak",
  "decision_date": "1899-11-02",
  "docket_number": "",
  "first_page": "393",
  "last_page": "394",
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      "type": "official",
      "cite": "85 Ill. App. 393"
    }
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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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  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Richard P. Leahy v. Stanley Wojdak."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Hr. Justice Adams\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\nThis is an appeal from a judgment rendered on appeal from a justice of the peace in favor of appellee against appellant Leahy, George A. Williams and R. 0. Huston, jointly. Leahy filed an affidavit denying joint liability. It appears from the evidence that Huston and Williams were conducting a store called \u201cThe Hart,\u201d and that Williams hired appellee to work in the store at a salary of $50 per month, and that appellee worked in the store from April 15th to July 26th next, and that he only received for his work $15, which was paid to him by Williams.\nThe evidence shows that Leahy had nothing to do with the business until about June 24th, when a corporation was formed, and an agreement was then made between those interested in the corporation, by which Frank H. Colby, for a consideration in the agreement mentioned, undertook and promised to pay all indebtedness created by \u201c The Mart \u201d prior to June 23, 1898.\nThere is, as before stated, no evidence whatever that Leahy had any interest in \u201c The Mart\u201d prior to June 24, 1898, or that any one except Williams and Huston were liable to appellee for work by him performed prior to that date.\nWhether Leahy became personally liable to appellee for wortc performed after June 22, 1898, when The Mart became incorporated, is, to say the least, doubtful. But it is not necessary to the decision of the case to decide that question. The judgment includes the amount due to appellee for services prior to J une 20,1898. It is, therefore, erroneous as to Leahy, and being a unit, if erroneous as to one of the joint defendants, it is erroneous as to all. The judgment will be reversed and the cause remanded.\nBe versed and remanded.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Hr. Justice Adams"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Masterson & Haft, attorneys for appellant.",
      "Ho appearance by appellee."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Richard P. Leahy v. Stanley Wojdak.\n1. Judgments\u2014In Joint and Several Demands.\u2014A judgment being a unit, if erroneous as to one of the joint defendants is erroneous as to all.\nAppeal from the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. Samuel C. Stough, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the March term, 1899.\nReversed and remanded.\nOpinion filed November 2, 1899.\nMasterson & Haft, attorneys for appellant.\nHo appearance by appellee."
  },
  "file_name": "0393-01",
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  "last_page_order": 404
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