{
  "id": 5277632,
  "name": "Revere Rubber Co. v. A. E. Reinhardt",
  "name_abbreviation": "Revere Rubber Co. v. Reinhardt",
  "decision_date": "1900-04-04",
  "docket_number": "",
  "first_page": "195",
  "last_page": "196",
  "citations": [
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      "type": "official",
      "cite": "88 Ill. App. 195"
    }
  ],
  "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": "2023-07-14T16:36:14.009445+00:00",
  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Revere Rubber Co. v. A. E. Reinhardt."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Freeman\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\nAppellee sued to recover under a written contract, which purports to have been made, and is signed, not by appellant, but by the \u201cHew York Tire Company.\u201d .The agreement was dated April 26, 1897, and by its terms was to begin Hay 1st and continue \u201c for the present year.\u201d In June following, appellee received a letter signed \u201cHew York Tire Company, per F. H. White,\u201d in which she was informed that the writer would be \u201c unable to further continue the arrangement which was made with you.\u201d The letter contained a draft for balance due to that date to appellee under the contract, and a blank receipt therefor to the \u201c Revere Rubber Company.\u201d Upon receipt of this letter appellee consulted a lawyer in Hew York, and Was advised not to discuss the matter with appellant, but to go on doing the work and to report. Several reports were accordingly sent in thereafter, not to appellant nor to the tire company, but to one Wood, an alleged agent or employe by whom the original contract with appellee was made.\nThe evidence by which it is sought to connect appellant with the contract, is the testimony of appellee that one White referred her to this Hr. Wood, who wrote the signature \u201c Hew York Tire Company \u201d to the contract of employment; that said White was \u201c ma,nager of the tire department of the Revere Rubber Company;\u201d that.the following conversation occurred between appellee and Wood: \u201c Row, suppose this company should fail and I won\u2019.t get anything out of it;\u201d and Mr. Wood said, \u201cYou will be working for the Revere Rubber Company; \u201d that the offices occupied by the rubber company and the tire company were the.same, and that the names of both companies appear on the'letter-head used by the tire company. There is no. evidence, that White or Wood had authority to act for appellant. The contract of employment as well as the letter of discharge are signed by the Rew York Tire Company, and while the latter purports to have been signed in the name of the tire company by White, and contained a blank form of receipt to appellant, such receipt was not competent evidence against appellant in the absence of .proof of knowledge that the form was so used. ,\nIt may be true, as stated by appellee\u2019s counsel, that the names Rew York Tire Company and Revere Rubber Company represent what is practically one and the same institution. But there is no evidence competent to s.o prove; and without such evidence we can find no sufficient ground to sustain a judgment against appellant for alleged breach of a contract which was apparently mad.e and terminated by another concern. In view of this conclusion it is unnecessary to consider the points raised as to instructions and measure of damages.\nThe judgment of the Circuit Court must be reversed and the cause remanded.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice Freeman"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Morse, Ives & Tone, attorneys for appellant.",
      "W. R. Hauze, attorney for appellee."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Revere Rubber Co. v. A. E. Reinhardt.\n1. Evidence\u2014As to Identity of Two Companies.\u2014The statement of an agent of a concern that it is identical with another is not sufficient evidence to sustain a judgment.\nAssumpsit, for wages.\u2014Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. John Gibbons, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1899.\nReversed and remanded.\nOpinion filed April 4, 1900.\nMorse, Ives & Tone, attorneys for appellant.\nW. R. Hauze, attorney for appellee."
  },
  "file_name": "0195-01",
  "first_page_order": 219,
  "last_page_order": 220
}