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  "id": 2606816,
  "name": "Michael Stenger v. Selah Swartwout",
  "name_abbreviation": "Stenger v. Swartwout",
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  "first_page": "257",
  "last_page": "257",
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      "cite": "62 Ill. 257"
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill.",
    "id": 8772,
    "name": "Illinois Supreme Court"
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    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Michael Stenger v. Selah Swartwout."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Per Curiam:\nThis case arose in justice\u2019s court, and was brought to recover a balance alleged to be due upon a special contract and for extra work.\nThe principal controversy was in reference to the amount of payments made by appellant.\nThis issue involved questions of fact only. The evidence was conflicting.\nWhere as to any essential element of a cause of action or defense there is no evidence at all, or the verdict is manifestly against the weight of evidence, this court will interfere and set it aside.\nThere is no essential element of appellee\u2019s case wholly unsupported by the evidence, nor was the verdict so manifestly against the weight of evidence, in respect to the alleged payments made by appellant, as to bring the case within the established rules of this court regarding new trials.\nThe judgment of the court below must, therefore, be affirmed.\nJudgment affirmed.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Per Curiam:"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Mr. Charles J. Metzner, for the appellant.",
      "Messrs. Parks & Annis, for the appellee."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Michael Stenger v. Selah Swartwout.\n1. New tbial\u2014finding as to facts. When there is no evidence at all as to any essential element of a cause of action or defense, or the verdict is manifestly against the weight of evidence, this court will interfere and set the verdict aside and grant a new trial.\nAppeal from the Court of Common Pleas of the city of Aurora;' the Hon. Richard G. Monton y, Judge, presiding.\nMr. Charles J. Metzner, for the appellant.\nMessrs. Parks & Annis, for the appellee."
  },
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