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  "id": 2835630,
  "name": "Henry C. Allen v. State of Illinois",
  "name_abbreviation": "Allen v. State",
  "decision_date": "1914-12-17",
  "docket_number": "",
  "first_page": "300",
  "last_page": "300",
  "citations": [
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      "cite": "2 Ill. Ct. Cl. 300"
    }
  ],
  "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": "2023-07-14T20:17:25.480052+00:00",
  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Henry C. Allen v. State of Illinois."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "The claimant in this case while an employee of the Game and Fish Commission of the State of Illinois, was directed by one of the officers of the commission, to use his launch in connection with the work in which he was engaged in and around Havana, Illinois.\nClaimant\u2019s launch was used in this line of work for some time and when not in use was placed in a boathouse near Havana, together with several other launches belonging to the State.\nOn the night of August 27, 1913, the boat house was destroyed by fire and the claimant\u2019s launch, together with several other launches belonging to the State, was destroyed.\nThe State filed a general demurrer to claimant\u2019s declaration wherein claimant seeks to recover two hundred fifty ($250.00) dollars.\nWe do not believe the State was bound to exercise any greater care of claimant\u2019s property than was exercised in this case, and the State can not be held liable for the loss of claimant\u2019s property, as the record discloses, that the same was destroyed by the act of third parties, who were not in any manner under the control of the State.\nWe are of the opinion that the demurrer should be sustained.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": null
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Edmund P. Nischwitz, for Claimant.",
      "P. J. Lueey, Attorney General, and Arthur R. Roy, Assistant Attorney General, for State."
    ],
    "corrections": "",
    "head_matter": "Henry C. Allen v. State of Illinois.\nOpinion filed December 17, 1914.\nNon-liability of State \u2014 State not liable for acts of third parties. Where property of claimant is destroyed by the acts of third parties, the State cannot be held liable therefor.\nEdmund P. Nischwitz, for Claimant.\nP. J. Lueey, Attorney General, and Arthur R. Roy, Assistant Attorney General, for State."
  },
  "file_name": "0300-01",
  "first_page_order": 332,
  "last_page_order": 332
}