{
  "id": 5340078,
  "name": "Rose F. Wenzel, as wife of Robert F. Wenzel, deceased, Claimant, vs. State of Illinois, Respondent",
  "name_abbreviation": "Wenzel v. State",
  "decision_date": "1973-04-26",
  "docket_number": "No. 00033",
  "first_page": "415",
  "last_page": "416",
  "citations": [
    {
      "type": "official",
      "cite": "28 Ill. Ct. Cl. 415"
    }
  ],
  "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": "2023-07-14T21:35:37.652347+00:00",
  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Rose F. Wenzel, as wife of Robert F. Wenzel, deceased, Claimant, vs. State of Illinois, Respondent."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Per Curiam.\nThis claim was filed pursuant to Ch. 48, Sec. 281 et seq., Ill.Rev.Stat., 1971, \u201cLaw Enforcement Officers and Firemen Compensation Act\u201d. The Court is in receipt of the Application for Benefits and Statement of Supervising Officer, as well as an investigative report by the Illinois Attorney General\u2019s office. Based upon these documents the Court finds as follows:\nThat the claimant, Rose F. Wenzel, is the wife of the decedent and is the named beneficiary under the Application for Benefits. That the decedent, Robert F. Wenzel, was a patrolman for the traffic division \u2014 Area No. 6, by the City of Chicago Police Department engaged in the scope of his duties on January 19, 1973, within the meaning of Section 282 of the aforecited act. On said date he was fatally shot three times after stopping a vehicle with two occupants, apparently for a traffic violation. Officer Wenzel\u2019s death was clearly as a result of bullet wounds to the back, neck, and head. The Court further finds that the Attorney General\u2019s office in its investigation has determined that this claim is within the scope of the above cited statutes:\n\u201cSection 282(e) \u2018killed in the line of duty\u2019 means losing one\u2019s life as a result of injury received in the active performance of duties as a law enforcement officer or fireman if the death occurs within one year from the date the injury was received and if that injury arose from violence or other accidental cause. . . \u201d\nIT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the sum of $10,000 (TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS) be, and the same here is, granted to Rose F. Wenzel, as wife and next of kin of the decedent, Robert F. Wenzel.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Per Curiam."
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Rose F. Wenzel, Claimant, pro se.",
      "William J. Scott, Attorney General; Saul R. Wexler, Assistant Attorney General and Vincent Biskupic, Special Assistant Attorney General, for Respondent."
    ],
    "corrections": "",
    "head_matter": "(No. 00033\nRose F. Wenzel, as wife of Robert F. Wenzel, deceased, Claimant, vs. State of Illinois, Respondent.\nOpinion filed April 26, 1973.\nRose F. Wenzel, Claimant, pro se.\nWilliam J. Scott, Attorney General; Saul R. Wexler, Assistant Attorney General and Vincent Biskupic, Special Assistant Attorney General, for Respondent."
  },
  "file_name": "0415-01",
  "first_page_order": 433,
  "last_page_order": 434
}