{ "id": 3385614, "name": "Libby Lyons et al., Appellants, v. County of Morgan, State of Illinois, Appellee", "name_abbreviation": "Lyons v. County of Morgan", "decision_date": "1942-02-24", "docket_number": "Gen. No. 9,309", "first_page": "296", "last_page": "299", "citations": [ { "type": "official", "cite": "313 Ill. App. 296" } ], "court": { "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.", "id": 8837, "name": "Illinois Appellate Court" }, "jurisdiction": { "id": 29, "name_long": "Illinois", "name": "Ill." }, "cites_to": [ { "cite": "153 Ill. App. 140", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ill. App.", "case_ids": [ 878245 ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ill-app/153/0140-01" ] }, { "cite": "207 Ill. App. 117", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ill. App.", "case_ids": [ 2926878 ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ill-app/207/0117-01" ] }, { "cite": "369 Ill. 480", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ill.", "case_ids": [ 2565085 ], "weight": 2, "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ill/369/0480-01" ] }, { "cite": "208 Ill. 544", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ill.", "case_ids": [ 3298794 ], "weight": 2, "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ill/208/0544-01" ] }, { "cite": "310 Ill. App. 602", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ill. App.", "case_ids": [ 3378622 ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ill-app/310/0602-01" ] } ], "analysis": { "cardinality": 261, "char_count": 3553, "ocr_confidence": 0.544, "pagerank": { "raw": 1.2421487389535297e-07, "percentile": 0.608158043190935 }, "sha256": "5618f63a4e4e8f540052c36bbab48006cabe16fb1a49e98bacdbd441c24b7b72", "simhash": "1:39f162bb666f4389", "word_count": 594 }, "last_updated": "2023-07-14T22:48:03.278906+00:00", "provenance": { "date_added": "2019-08-29", "source": "Harvard", "batch": "2018" }, "casebody": { "judges": [], "parties": [ "Libby Lyons et al., Appellants, v. County of Morgan, State of Illinois, Appellee." ], "opinions": [ { "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice Hayes\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\nThis is a suit brought by Libby Lyons, and 16 other plaintiffs against Morgan County seeking to recover unpaid amounts under the \u201cBelief for the Blind\u201d Act. These claims accrued during the period from July 1, 1933 to March 1, 1936; during which time Morgan County paid no blind pensions to any one. Also included in the suit as plaintiffs are the administrators of the estates of three deceased pensioners. While the suit was pending, two other pensioners died and their legal representatives were substituted. The defendant, in its answer, pleaded the five-year statute of limitations to that portion of the claims accruing more than five years prior to the bringing of the suit.\nA stipulation was entered into covering all the material facts of the case, and the cause was tried on the facts included within the stipulation without any additional proof.\nA decree was entered holding that portion of the claims that accrued within five years of the filing of the suit to be valid, \u2014 excepting those of the administrators of intestates who had died prior to the bringing of this suit, and entered judgment thereon.\nWe have a statute entitled, \u201cAn Act for the Relief of the Blind,\u201d which provides for the county to pay annually a fixed sum for the benefit of the blind. Chapter 23, sec. 279, Ill. Rev. Stat. 1941 [Jones Ill., Stats. Ann. 18.071].\nAppellants state, in their brief, that the only question involved in this case is whether upon this set of facts, appellants\u2019 action is upon a written contract \u201cor other evidences of indebtedness in writing\u201d within the meaning of section 16 of the statute of limitations. Appellants contend that the ten-year statute of limitations applies, and not the five-year statute.\nThis question was recently before this court in the case of People ex rel. Powles v. County of Alexander, Illinois, 310 Ill. App. 602, which was decided adversely to appellants\u2019 contention. This court therein stated: \u201cThe obligation of the county to pay and the right of the plaintiffs to receive the benefits sought to be recovered in the present action arise by virtue, of the statute. It has been held that where liability results from a statute, an action to enforce such liability is a 'civil action not otherwise provided for\u2019 within the meaning of section 15 of the Limitations Act, and is therefore governed by the five year statute of limitations. (Parmelee v. Price, 208 Ill. 544; Blakeslee\u2019s Warehouses, Inc. v. City of Chicago, 369 Ill. 480.) These decisions are decisive of the question and the trial court should have applied the five year statute of limitations and limited the plaintiffs\u2019 recovery to unpaid benefits which had become due within five years next preceding the filing of suit. \u2019 \u2019\nCauses of actions arising on statutes or ordinances are not written contracts within the meaning of the Limitation Act. Rath v. City of Chicago, 207 Ill. App. 117; N. K. Fairbank Co. v. City of Chicago, 153 Ill. App. 140; Parmelee v. Price, 208 Ill. 544; Blakeslee\u2019s Storage Warehouses, Inc. v. City of Chicago, 369 Ill. 480.\nIt is our opinion that the five-year statute of limitations controls, and that the decree of the circuit court is correct.\nThe decree of the circuit court of Morgan county is affirmed.\nDecree affirmed.", "type": "majority", "author": "Mr. Presiding Justice Hayes" } ], "attorneys": [ "Thomson & Thomson, of Jacksonville, for appellants.", "Oscar C. Zachary, of Jacksonville, for appellee." ], "corrections": "", "head_matter": "Libby Lyons et al., Appellants, v. County of Morgan, State of Illinois, Appellee.\nGen. No. 9,309.\nOpinion filed February 24, 1942.\nThomson & Thomson, of Jacksonville, for appellants.\nOscar C. Zachary, of Jacksonville, for appellee." }, "file_name": "0296-01", "first_page_order": 316, "last_page_order": 319 }