{
  "id": 2604054,
  "name": "Chicago Soap & Polish Co. v. Frederick W. Stansbury",
  "name_abbreviation": "Chicago Soap & Polish Co. v. Stansbury",
  "decision_date": "1902-01-21",
  "docket_number": "",
  "first_page": "488",
  "last_page": "489",
  "citations": [
    {
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      "cite": "99 Ill. App. 488"
    }
  ],
  "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",
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    "batch": "2018"
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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Chicago Soap & Polish Co. v. Frederick W. Stansbury."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Waterman\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\nThis was an action for wages begun before a justice of the peace. There and upon appeal to the Circuit Court the plaintiff recovered a judgment for $77. Appellant contends that he employed appellee to work for one year, and that he broke the contract by leaving before the end of that term.\nThe evidence tended to show that appellee was employed to work for one year, and that he was to be paid $2 per day, either daily or weekly; that he was paid at three different times, in all $2o; and that thereafter he left because he could not get his pay.\nAn engagement to work for one year for $2 per day, payment to be made at the expiration of the term, is so unusual that it is not to be presumed.\nThe small payments made in December, January and February, indicate that this was not the agreement.\nThe engagement appears to have been broken by the failure of appellant to pay wages as promised. Complaint is made that appellee carried off formulas which belonged to appellant. No evidence showing the value of such formulas was offered.\nAppellant may, perhaps, in another action, recover these, but the carrying them away by appellee, under the evidence in this case does not constitute any ground of defense or for set-off.\nThe judgment of the Circuit Court is affirmed.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice Waterman"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Lee, Lee & Schuchardt, attorneys for appellant.",
      "Ritchie, Esher & Knobel, attorneys for appellee."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Chicago Soap & Polish Co. v. Frederick W. Stansbury.\n1. Contracts \u2014 Unusual, Not Presumed. \u2014 An engagement to work one year for two dollars per day, payment to be made at the expiration of the term, is so unusual as not to be presumed.\nAssumpsit, for work, etc. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. John C. Carver, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1900.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed January 21, 1902.\nLee, Lee & Schuchardt, attorneys for appellant.\nRitchie, Esher & Knobel, attorneys for appellee."
  },
  "file_name": "0488-01",
  "first_page_order": 514,
  "last_page_order": 515
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