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  "id": 2836258,
  "name": "John Godwin, Administrator of the Estate of Inez Godwin, Deceased, v. State of Illinois",
  "name_abbreviation": "Godwin v. State",
  "decision_date": "1914-11-19",
  "docket_number": "",
  "first_page": "278",
  "last_page": "278",
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      "cite": "2 Ill. Ct. Cl. 278"
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  "court": {
    "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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    "batch": "2018"
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    "parties": [
      "John Godwin, Administrator of the Estate of Inez Godwin, Deceased, v. State of Illinois."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "This is one of the so-called Utica bridge cases, and its decision is controlled by the decisions of the Morrissey and Farmer cases.\nDecedent was under the bridge at the time of the accident. She was twelve years old, and left surviving her, her father, mother and five brothers and sisters. She sustained a compound fracture of a leg and tetanus set in, as a result of which she died fourteen days after the accident.\nIt is the judgment of the Court, that the claim be denied, without prejudice to the right of claimant to present his claim to the legislature, and with the statement, that if it were within our power, we would award to claimant the sum of three thousand dollars.",
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      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "CMpperfield & Clnpperfield, Browne & Wiley, Duncan, Doyle & O\u2019Conor, Howard H. Bayne, George P. Hills, Gleim & Colwell, for Claimant.",
      "P. J. Lucey, Attorney General, and Arthur R. Roy, Assistant Attorney General, (Stead, Woodward & Hibbs, of Counsel), for State."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "John Godwin, Administrator of the Estate of Inez Godwin, Deceased, v. State of Illinois.\nOpinion filed November 19, 1914.\nNon-liability op State \u2014 Morrissey v. State and Farmer v. State ante followed. This claim is governed by the decisions of the Court in the cases of Morrissey v. State, supra, and Farmer v. State, supra.\nCMpperfield & Clnpperfield, Browne & Wiley, Duncan, Doyle & O\u2019Conor, Howard H. Bayne, George P. Hills, Gleim & Colwell, for Claimant.\nP. J. Lucey, Attorney General, and Arthur R. Roy, Assistant Attorney General, (Stead, Woodward & Hibbs, of Counsel), for State."
  },
  "file_name": "0278-01",
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  "last_page_order": 310
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