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  "name": "Lowell Lieurance, Claimant, vs. State of Illinois, Respondent",
  "name_abbreviation": "Lieurance v. State",
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  "docket_number": "No. 2755",
  "first_page": "363",
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    "name": "Illinois Court of Claims"
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    "name_long": "Illinois",
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      "cite": "259 Ill. 549",
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      "Lowell Lieurance, Claimant, vs. State of Illinois, Respondent."
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    "opinions": [
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        "text": "Mr. Justice Linscott\ndelivered the opinion of the court:\nClaimant avers that on December 6, 1934, at about 8:00 o\u2019clock a. m., claimant was in a certain public garage in the City of Abingdon, Illinois, known as Spurgeon\u2019s Chevrolet Sales; that he had stored an International truck in said garage, and on that morning he went there to procure the same; that he went to the front of the truck for the purpose of cranking the same preparatory to moving it from the garage; that this truck was so placed that it was facing one of the walls of said garage building, the front of said truck being approximately three feet distant from the wall; that at this time and place there was another truck owned and operated by the Department of Public Works and Buildings, Division of Highways of the State of Illinois, in this garage, a short distance from claimant\u2019s truck and headed toward the claimant\u2019s truck, and while the claimant was between the wall and his truck and endeavoring to crank the same, the driver of the State truck started his engine and it ran against claimant\u2019s truck because it had been negligently and carelessly left in gear, and by means of this carelessness and negligence claimant was pushed against the wall of the garage building and was severely injured. Claimant asks for damages in the sum of $6,000.00.\nThe Attorney General has made a motion to dismiss.\nThis court has on numerous occasions held that the State of Illinois is not liable for the negligence and carelessness of its officers and agents.\nIn the case of Minear vs. State Board of Agriculture, 259 Ill. 549, it was held that such board is not subject to the liabilities of a private or quasi-public corporation, and the same rule is applicable to other agencies of the State.\nThe motion of the Attorney General must, therefore, be sustained and award denied.",
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        "author": "Mr. Justice Linscott"
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    "attorneys": [
      "Hardy, Hardy, Hardy & Withered, for claimant.",
      "John E. Cassidy, Attorney General; Gdenn A. Trevor, Assistant Attorney General, for respondent."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "(No. 2755\nLowell Lieurance, Claimant, vs. State of Illinois, Respondent.\nOpinion filed January 13, 1941.\nHardy, Hardy, Hardy & Withered, for claimant.\nJohn E. Cassidy, Attorney General; Gdenn A. Trevor, Assistant Attorney General, for respondent."
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