{
  "id": 5340838,
  "name": "Carolyn B. Gill, widow, et al, Claimant, vs. State of Illinois, Respondent",
  "name_abbreviation": "Gill v. State",
  "decision_date": "1950-07-07",
  "docket_number": "No. 4261",
  "first_page": "31",
  "last_page": "33",
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      "cite": "20 Ill. Ct. Cl. 31"
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. Ct. Cl.",
    "id": 8793,
    "name": "Illinois Court of Claims"
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  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
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    "parties": [
      "Carolyn B. Gill, widow, et al, Claimant, vs. State of Illinois, Respondent."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Delaney,- J.\nClaimant, Carolyn B. Gill, is the widow of Clarence S. Gill, deceased, who was employed on December 13, 1949, in the capacity of a resident engineer in the Department of Public Works and Buildings, Division of Waterways. Although his home was at 807 West Pecan Street, Carbondale, Illinois, he was on the above date occupying a room at Utica, Illinois, in a rooming house owned by Mrs. Sam Gardner. On December 13,1949, while driving a State owned automobile from the respondent\u2019s office at Joliet, returning to Utica in the evening, a short distance from Lisbon, Kendall County, Illinois, on Route 52, the deceased overshot a curve in the highway running into and knocking down a number of guard posts along the highway, causing the car which he was. driving to overturn. Mr. Gill, the driver of the car, was fatally injured in the accident.\nThe record consists of the complaint, departmental report, transcript of evidence, and claimant\u2019s brief, respondent having orally waived the filing of a brief.\nUpon consideration of this case, the Court finds it has jurisdiction of the parties hereto and of the subject matter; that the injury which resulted in the death of Mr. Gill arose out of and in the course of his employment; that the respondent had proper notice of the accident and the death of Mr. Gill, and the application for claim was filed in proper time as provided under Section 24 of the Workmen\u2019s Compensation Act, as amended. We further find from this record that deceased\u2019s annual earnings during the year immediately prior to Ms death amounted to the sum of $3,594.00. His weekly compensation rate, therefore, would be $15.00. The death having occurred subsequent to July 18, 1949, tMs must be increased 50 per cent, making a compensation rate of $22.50 per week. The decedent had no children under sixteen years of age dependent upon Mm for support at the tim\u00e9 of his death.\nClaimant is, therefore, entitled to an award under Section 7 (a) of the Workmen\u2019s Compensation Act in the amount of $4,000.00, which must be increased 50 per cent, making a total award of $6,000.00.\n. An award is, therefore, made in favor of the claimant, Carolyn B. Gill, in the amount of $6,000.00, to be paid to her as follows :\n$ 658.93, which has accrued and is payable forthwith; \u25a0\n$5,341.07 is payable in weekly installments of $22.50 per week, begin- . ning July 14, 1950, for a period of 237 weeks, with an additional final payment of $8.57.\nAll future payments being subject to the terms and conditions of the Workmen\u2019s Compensation Act of Illinois, jurisdiction of this cause is specifically reserved for the entry of such further orders as may from time to time be necessary.\nAn award is also entered in favor of Imogene Ward Steph for stenograpMc services in the \u25a0 sum of $22.74, wMch is payable forthwith. The Court finds that the amount charged is fair, reasonable and customary, and said claim is allowed.\nTMs 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": "Delaney,- J."
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Feibich and Feibich, Attorneys for Claimant.",
      "Ivan A. Elliott, Attorney General; C. Abthitb Nebel, Assistant Attorney General, for Respondent."
    ],
    "corrections": "",
    "head_matter": "(No. 4261\nCarolyn B. Gill, widow, et al, Claimant, vs. State of Illinois, Respondent.\nOpinion filed July 7, 1950.\nFeibich and Feibich, Attorneys for Claimant.\nIvan A. Elliott, Attorney General; C. Abthitb Nebel, Assistant Attorney General, for Respondent."
  },
  "file_name": "0031-01",
  "first_page_order": 55,
  "last_page_order": 57
}