{
  "id": 2814725,
  "name": "Victor Weidner, Claimant, vs. State of Illinois, Respondent",
  "name_abbreviation": "Weidner v. State",
  "decision_date": "1938-06-20",
  "docket_number": "No. 3151",
  "first_page": "336",
  "last_page": "338",
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      "cite": "10 Ill. Ct. Cl. 336"
    }
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. Ct. Cl.",
    "id": 8793,
    "name": "Illinois Court of Claims"
  },
  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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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": [
      "Victor Weidner, Claimant, vs. State of Illinois, Respondent."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Chief Justice Hollerich\ndelivered the opinion of the court:\nPrior to and on December 11, 1936, claimant was in the employ of the respondent as a laborer in the Division of Highways, Department of Public Works and Buildings. On the date aforementioned, he was working* with a tarring* crew on Harlem Avenue just north of Higgins Road in Cook County. While hooking the asphalt heating* kettle onto the truck, claimant\u2019s foot slipped on the ice, the kettle tipped, and the hot asphalt spilled on him as he fell to the ground, whereby he received second degree burns about the left eye, left nostril, left ear, left side of face, neck and right wrist.\nHe was taken to St. Francis Hospital in Evanston where he remained until December 17th, 1936 when he returned to his home.\nHe was temporarily totally disabled from December 11th, 1936 until February 18th, 1937.\nRespondent paid bills for medical services in the amount of Eighty-nine Dollars ($89.00), and hospital bills in the amount of Twenty-six Dollars ($26.00), and in addition thereto, paid the claimant the sum of One Hundred Fifteen Dollars and Twenty Cents ($115.20) for temporary total disability.\nNo further claim is made for temporary total disability, but claimant asks for compensation for serious and permanent disfigurement to his hand, head, neck and face, pursuant to the provisions of paragraph A, Section 8 of the Workmen\u2019s Compensation Act of this State.\nClaimant was personally present in court and submitted to a physical examination.\nClaimant was in the employ of the respondent for less than a year, and his annual earnings computed in accordance with Section 10 of the Workmen\u2019s Compensation Act, were Eight Hundred Dollars ($800.00), and his average weekly wag*e was Fifteen Dollars and Thirty-eight Cents ($15.38). He had two children under the age of sixteen years at the time of the accident.\nFrom the evidence in the record and a personal examination of claimant, we find that although there is a slight discoloration on claimant\u2019s right wrist, it does not constitute a serious disfigurement within the meaning of the Compensation Act. We further find that claimant has sustained a serious and permanent disfigurement to the face and neck, and in accordance with the provisions of Section 8-C of the Workmen\u2019s Compensation Act, is entitled to compensation in the sum of Two Hundred Sixteen Dollars ($216.00), payable at the rate of Twelve Dollars ($12.00) per week, commencing February 18th, 1937.\nThe entire amount of such compensation having accrued at this time, award is- entered in favor of the claimant for the sum of Two Hundred Sixteen Dollars ($216.00).\nThis award being subject to the provisions of an Act entitled, \u201cAn Act Making an Appropriation to Pay Compensation Claims of State Employees and Providing for the Method of Payment Thereof,\u201d approved July 3d, 1937 (Session Laws 1937, p. 83), and being by the terms of such Act, subject to the approval of the Governor, is hereby, if and when such approval is given, made payable from the appropriation from the Eoad Fund in the manner provided for in such Act.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Chief Justice Hollerich"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Harris & Jafee and Irving Proctor, for claimant.",
      "Otto Keener, Attorney General; Murray F. Milne, Assistant Attorney General, for respondent."
    ],
    "corrections": "",
    "head_matter": "(No. 3151\nVictor Weidner, Claimant, vs. State of Illinois, Respondent.\nOpinion filed June 20, 1938.\nHarris & Jafee and Irving Proctor, for claimant.\nOtto Keener, Attorney General; Murray F. Milne, Assistant Attorney General, for respondent."
  },
  "file_name": "0336-01",
  "first_page_order": 356,
  "last_page_order": 358
}