{
  "id": 2809981,
  "name": "Commercial Acetylene Supply Co. Inc., Claimant, vs. State of Illinois, Respondent",
  "name_abbreviation": "Commercial Acetylene Supply Co. v. State",
  "decision_date": "1937-07-01",
  "docket_number": "No. 3031",
  "first_page": "4",
  "last_page": "5",
  "citations": [
    {
      "type": "official",
      "cite": "10 Ill. Ct. Cl. 4"
    }
  ],
  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. Ct. Cl.",
    "id": 8793,
    "name": "Illinois Court of Claims"
  },
  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
  },
  "cites_to": [],
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  "last_updated": "2023-07-14T19:15:58.456912+00:00",
  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Commercial Acetylene Supply Co. Inc., Claimant, vs. State of Illinois, Respondent."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mb. Chief Justice Holleeich\ndelivered the opinion of the court:\nFrom the stipulation of facts herein it appears that claimant was awarded a contract to furnish oxygen and acetylene gas for the use of the respondent at Lincoln State School and Colony from July 1st, 1934 to June 30th, 1935.\nThe contract provided for a demurrage charge of two cents (2c) per day on all cylinders held beyond an initial thirty-day period. During the term of the contract, cylinders were held beyond the thirty-day period for a total of 2,116 days.\nAt the close of each month claimant rendered a statement of the amount due it for such demurrage charges, but none of such items were vouchered for payment, and no payment has been made therefor.\nThe appropriation from which such items were payable lapsed September 30th, 1935, at which time there remained an unexpended balance of such appropriation sufficient to pay the claimant\u2019s account.\nFrom the facts stipulated it appears that under the terms of its contract, claimant is entitled to the amount claimed. It presented its statements promptly, and the failure to approve the same and voucher them for payment was not the result of any negligence on the part of the claimant. The evidence shows that there was an unexpended balance in the proper appropriation at the time the same lapsed, sufficient to pay the amount of claimant\u2019s demand, and under the repeated decisions of this court, claimant is entitled to an award.\nAward is therefore entered in favor of the claimant for the sum of Forty-two Dollars and Thirty-two Cents ($42.32).",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mb. Chief Justice Holleeich"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Claimant, pro se.",
      "Otto Keener, Attorney General; Murray F. Milne, Assistant Attorney General, for respondent."
    ],
    "corrections": "",
    "head_matter": "(No. 3031\nCommercial Acetylene Supply Co. Inc., Claimant, vs. State of Illinois, Respondent.\nOpinion filed July 1, 1937.\nClaimant, pro se.\nOtto Keener, Attorney General; Murray F. Milne, Assistant Attorney General, for respondent."
  },
  "file_name": "0004-01",
  "first_page_order": 24,
  "last_page_order": 25
}