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  "id": 6096541,
  "name": "John W. Dawson et al. v. The President, Directors, and Company of the Bank of Illinois",
  "name_abbreviation": "Dawson v. President",
  "decision_date": "1842-12",
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  "first_page": "59",
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    "name_abbreviation": "Ill.",
    "id": 8772,
    "name": "Illinois Supreme Court"
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    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
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    "parties": [
      "John W. Dawson et al. v. The President, Directors, and Company of the Bank of Illinois."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Douglass, Justice,\ndelivered the opinion of the court.: This was an action of assumpsit in the McLean circuit court, by the Bank of Illinois against the defendants, on a promissory note made by the appellants to the appellees. The defendants pleaded, \u201c that at the time of the execution of their certain note in writing-in the plaintiffs\u2019 declaration specified, they, the said plaintiffs, did then and there agree with the said defendants, to receive ten per cent, of the amount of the said promissory note in the'plaintiffs\u2019 declaration specified, when the said note should become due and payable, according to the tenor and effect of the said note, and to take from the defendants 'a note for the remainder due to the said plaintiffs, after deducting the ten per cent, aforesaid, which said n\u00f3te was to be due and payable to the plaintiffs in seven months from the time of the becoming due of the said note in plaintiff\u2019s declaration specified.\u201d\nTo this plea there was a demurrer, which was sustained by the court, and the defendants saying nothing further, judgment was rendered for the plaintiffs for the amount of the note and interest.\nThe assignment of error questions the correctness of the decision of the court sustaining the demurrer to the said plea, and rendering judgment for the plaintiffs. \u2022\nThe plea is palpably defective. It sets up a special agreement at the time of the execution of the note, of the benefits of which the defendants attempt to avail themselves, without any pretence of performance on their part.\nThe judgment is affirmed with costs.\nJudgment affirmed.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Douglass, Justice,"
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    "attorneys": [
      "E. D. Baker and A. T. Bledsoe, for the appellants.",
      "J. J. Hardin, for the appellees."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "John W. Dawson et al. v. The President, Directors, and Company of the Bank of Illinois.\nAppeal from McLean.\nI. Promissory Note, \u2014 Defective flea in bar. A plea to an action upon a promissory note, by the payees against the makers, that at the time of the execution of the note, the payees agreed to receive ten per cent, of the amount of the note, when it should become due, and accept a new note payable seven months from the falling due of said note, for the residue, is no bar to the action.\nThis cause was tried in the McLean circuit court, at the September term, 1842, before the Hon. Samuel H. [* 57] Treat. Judgment was rendered for the plaintiffs for $979.87 damages, and costs of suit. The defendants appealed to this court, where the cause was submitted without argument.\nE. D. Baker and A. T. Bledsoe, for the appellants.\nJ. J. Hardin, for the appellees."
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