{
  "id": 5341445,
  "name": "Cliffe Compton, Claimant, vs. State of Illinois, Respondent",
  "name_abbreviation": "Compton v. State",
  "decision_date": "1950-09-19",
  "docket_number": "No. 4225",
  "first_page": "65",
  "last_page": "66",
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      "cite": "20 Ill. Ct. Cl. 65"
    }
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  "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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    "batch": "2018"
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    "parties": [
      "Cliffe Compton, Claimant, vs. State of Illinois, Respondent."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Lansden, J.\nOn March 18, 1949, claimant, Cliffe Compton, was employed as an attendant at the Elgin State Hospital operated by the Department of Public Welfare.\nShortly after going to work for the day, while moving patients from one room to another, claimant\u2019s second finger on his left hand was caught between the door jamb and the metal edged door, and the distal phalanx thereof was traumatically severed.\nFor the specific loss, claimant brings this action under the Workmen\u2019s Compensation Act, and he is entitled to recover under Section 8 (e) (3) (6) of the Act, the accident concededly having arisen out of and in the course of his employment.\nClaimant lost no compensable time from his employm\u00e9nt as a result of his accident, and all medical treatment was furnished by respondent. No jurisdictional questions are involved.\nClaimant had worked for respondent for almost 25 years, and in the year prior to his accident, he earned $2,100.00. Claimant, aged 66, was married, but had no children. His rate of compensation- is, therefore, $19.50 per week.\nWilliam J. Cleary & Co., Court Reporters, Chicago, Illinois, was employed to take and transcribe the testimony before Commissioner Tearney.- Charges of $21.10 were incurred, which are reasonable and customary. An award is, therefore, entered in favor of William J. Cleary & Co. for $21.10.\nAn award is entered in favor of claimant, Cliffe Compton, under Section 8 (e) (3) (6) of the Workmen\u2019s Compensation Act for a fifty per cent loss of the second finger of his left hand, by reason of the loss of the distal phalanx of such finger, or 17% weeks at $19.50 per week, or the sum of $341.25, all of which has accrued and is payable forthwith.\nThe award is subject to the approval of the Governor as provided in Section 3 of \u201cAn Act to provide for the payment of compensation awards to State employees. \u2019 \u2019",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Lansden, J."
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Paulson, Morgan and Jordan, Attorneys for Claimant.",
      "Ivan A. Elliott, Attorney General; William H. Sumpter, Assistant Attorney General, for Respondent."
    ],
    "corrections": "",
    "head_matter": "(No. 4225\nCliffe Compton, Claimant, vs. State of Illinois, Respondent.\nOpinion filed September 19, 1950.\nPaulson, Morgan and Jordan, Attorneys for Claimant.\nIvan A. Elliott, Attorney General; William H. Sumpter, Assistant Attorney General, for Respondent."
  },
  "file_name": "0065-01",
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  "last_page_order": 90
}