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  "id": 2608393,
  "name": "Alfred Gregory v. Legrand L. Wells",
  "name_abbreviation": "Gregory v. Wells",
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  "first_page": "232",
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      "cite": "62 Ill. 232"
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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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    "parties": [
      "Alfred Gregory v. Legrand L. Wells."
    ],
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      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Thornton\ndelivered the opinion of the Court:\nThis suit was instituted upon a written contract t\u00f3 deliver corn, and damages are claimed for its breach.\nA plea of tender was interposed, averring a tender of money after the commencement of the suit, to which a demurrer was sustained.\nThe damages to be recovered were for a breach of the contract, and were unliquidated.\nIn such case this court has decided, in Cilley v Hawkins, 48. Ill. 309, that a plea of tender is not a good plea, either at common law or under our statute.\nThe demurrer was properly sustained, and the judgment is affirmed.\nJudgment affirmed.",
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        "author": "Mr. Justice Thornton"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Messrs. Hoff & Doyle, for the plaintiff in error."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Alfred Gregory v. Legrand L. Wells.\n1. Tender\u2014after suit. In a suit to recover unliquidated damages for breach of contract, the defendant filed a plea averring a tender of money after suit brought, to which the court sustained a demurrer : Held, that the plea was not a good.defense,-either at common law or under our statute.\nWrit OF Error to the Circuit Court of Iroquois County; the Hon. Charles E. Starr, Judge, presiding.\nMessrs. Hoff & Doyle, for the plaintiff in error."
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