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  "id": 2759169,
  "name": "Charles W. Young, Claimant, vs. State of Illinois, Respondent",
  "name_abbreviation": "Young v. State",
  "decision_date": "1947-12-18",
  "docket_number": "No. 4033",
  "first_page": "123",
  "last_page": "125",
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      "cite": "17 Ill. Ct. Cl. 123"
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    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. Ct. Cl.",
    "id": 8793,
    "name": "Illinois Court of Claims"
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    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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    "parties": [
      "Charles W. Young, Claimant, vs. State of Illinois, Respondent."
    ],
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      {
        "text": "Bergstrom, J.\nClaimant, Charles W. Young, filed his complaint on August 2nd, 1947 for loss of the use of his left eye resulting from an accident which occurred on March 18, 1947.\nHe was employed by respondent in the Department of Public Works and Buildings, Division of Highways, as a common laborer. On March 18, 1947 claimant was engaged in removing' broken portions of the paved surface of U. S. Highway 36 and making temporary patches with a bituminous mix. Pie placed his pick under the edge of a V-shaped piece of broken concrete to pry it loose from the surrounding pavement, and as he pried back on his pick a small piece of concrete broke off and struck claimant in his left eye. The foreman took him to Dr. Harry 0. Pope, who treated him for a lacerated cornea, and the following morning, March 19, 1947, took claimant to Dr. T. \u25a0 P. Leonard, an eye, ear, nose and throat specialist in Decatur. On July 5, 1947 Dr. Leonard submitted his final report to the Division of Highways, as follows:\n\u201cNature of Injury \u2014 Intraocular foreign body in left eye, traumatic cataract. Treatment \u2014 Removal of intraocular foreign body, linear extraction of cataract. X-rays \u2014 3/19/47, 3/22/47, 4/4/47. Date patient was discharged \u2014 June 6, 1947. Date able to work \u2014 April 24, 1947. Permanent disability \u2014 100 per cent loss of vision in left eye. O. S. 20/400.\u201d\nFrom the record, we find that claimant was injured during the course of and out of his employment, and as all jurisdictional requirements have been satisfied, he is entitled to the benefits as,provided in the Workmen\u2019s Compensation Act.\nClaimant is married but has no children. His earnings in the year preceding his injury were $1,803.30. His compensation rate would be the maximum of $15.00 per week, which must be increased 20% to .$18.00 per week, the accident having occurred subsequent to July 1, 1945. He was paid $84.86 for total temporary disability for the period of March 19, 1947 to April .20, 1947 inclusive. All medical, hospital and nursing bills were paid by respondent in connection with this injury, totalling $691.15.\nWe find from the evidence that claimant has suffered a 100 per cent loss of vision in his left eye, and is entitled to receive the sum of $2,160.00, based on 120 weeks at his compensation rate of $18.00 per week.\nThe sum of $100.00 should also be paid to the Treasurer of the State of Illinois for the special fund provided in Section 7, Paragraph E of the Workmen\u2019s Compensation Act and as authorized under Section 8, Paragraph E, Sub-paragraph 20 of the said Act.\nAn award is therefore entered in favor of claimant, Charles W. Young, in the sum of $2,160.00, payable as follows:\n$ 540.00, which has accrued and is payable forthwith;\n$1,620.00, payable in. installments of $18.00 per week for 90 weeks, commencing November 24, 1947.\nAn award is also entered for the sum of $100.00, payable to the Treasurer of the State of Illinois.\nThis award is subject to the approval of the Governor as provided in Section 3 of \u201cAn Act concerning the payment of compensation awards to State employees.\u201d",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Bergstrom, J."
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Claimant, pro se.",
      "George F. Barrett, Attorney General; C. Arthur Rebel, Assistant Attorney General, for Respondent."
    ],
    "corrections": "",
    "head_matter": "(No. 4033\nCharles W. Young, Claimant, vs. State of Illinois, Respondent.\nOpinion filed December 18, 1947.\nClaimant, pro se.\nGeorge F. Barrett, Attorney General; C. Arthur Rebel, Assistant Attorney General, for Respondent."
  },
  "file_name": "0123-01",
  "first_page_order": 143,
  "last_page_order": 145
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