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  "id": 2780271,
  "name": "Allen Dick v. George W. Moore",
  "name_abbreviation": "Dick v. Moore",
  "decision_date": "1877-01",
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  "first_page": "66",
  "last_page": "66",
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      "cite": "85 Ill. 66"
    }
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill.",
    "id": 8772,
    "name": "Illinois Supreme Court"
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    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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    "batch": "2018"
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    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Allen Dick v. George W. Moore."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Walker\ndelivered the opinion of the Court:\nIn this case, the judgment was by default, on this service: \u25a0 \u201cI have duly served the within by reading the same to the within named Allen Dick, Stephen English and John Hester, as I am therein commanded.\u201d The fourth section of the Practice Act provides that sheriffs shall return the writ \u201cby or on the return day, with an indorsement of his service, the time of serving it,\u201d etc. Here, there is no date to the return, or any time named when service was made. In this there was a total failure to comply with this requirement of the statute, and, as no appearance was entered, the court below erred in rendering judgment by default on this insufficient service.\nThe judgment of the court below must be reversed and the\n\u2022 cause remanded.\nJudgment reversed.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice Walker"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Messrs. Somers & Weight, for the plaintiff in error."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Allen Dick v. George W. Moore.\nReturn upon summons\u2014requisites. It is error to render judgment hy default upon a return of service on the summons made hy the sheriff, with- \u2022 out date and without any time named in the return when the service was made.\nWrit of Ebbob to the Circuit Court of Champaign county; the Hon. C. B. Smith, Judge, presiding.\nMessrs. Somers & Weight, for the plaintiff in error."
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  "file_name": "0066-01",
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