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  "id": 5338814,
  "name": "Nancy E. Wheeler, as widow and beneficiary of Frederick Leland Wheeler, Claimant, vs. State of Illinois, Respondent",
  "name_abbreviation": "Wheeler v. State",
  "decision_date": "1973-11-13",
  "docket_number": "No. 00016",
  "first_page": "531",
  "last_page": "532",
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      "cite": "29 Ill. Ct. Cl. 531"
    }
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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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  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Nancy E. Wheeler, as widow and beneficiary of Frederick Leland Wheeler, Claimant, vs. State of Illinois, Respondent."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Per Curiam.\nThis action is brought by Nancy E. Wheeler, as widow and designated beneficiary of Frederick Leland Wheeler, deceased, pursuant to the \"Law Enforcement Officers and Firemen Compensation Act\u201d, [hereafter, \"the Act\u201d] Ch. 48, Sec. 281, et. seq., Ill.Rev.Stat., 1971.\nClaimant filed an application for benefits, narrative report prepared by her attorney, and coroner\u2019s certificate of death. The Attorney General\u2019s office investigated the claim, pursuant to Section 4 of the Act, received investigative reports from the Illinois State Police, and Edwardsville Police Department, and recommended that the case be set for hearing. The court, sitting en banc, heard the case on May 8, 1973.\nThe relevant facts, briefly, are as follows: the decedent, was a corporal employed by the Illinois State Police. He began his duties with the Illinois State Police at 8:00 a.m. on November 15, 1971. His activities on said date included a search for a stolen vehicle in East St. Louis, Illinois, a trip to the place of a homicide in Washington Park, Illinois, a drive to Maryville, Illinois, District 11 Headquarters, and a trip to Edwardsville, Illinois. He arrived at Edwardsville, at approximately 6:25 p.m. It is here that his duties as a state policeman ended, according to the testimony elicited from Corporal Wheeler\u2019s supervisors. Thereafter, his activities were of a social, personal nature. At approximately 11:00 p.m., the application recites that his death occurred when his service pistol discharged, as it was being transferred, apparently from one hand to another in his car.\nThe dispositive issue for the Court\u2019s determination is whether Corporal Wheeler was on duty at the time of his death at 11:00 p.m.\nThe Court finds from the testimony and evidence presented that Corporal Wheeler was not on duty at the time of his death and therefore, denies the claim presented herein.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Per Curiam."
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Nancy E. Wheeler, Claimant, by Thomas Carmody, her attorney.",
      "William J. Scott, Attorney General; Saul R. Wexler, Assistant Attorney General, and Vincent Biskupic, Special Assistant Attorney, for Respondent."
    ],
    "corrections": "",
    "head_matter": "(No. 00016\nNancy E. Wheeler, as widow and beneficiary of Frederick Leland Wheeler, Claimant, vs. State of Illinois, Respondent.\nOpinion filed November 13, 1973.\nNancy E. Wheeler, Claimant, by Thomas Carmody, her attorney.\nWilliam J. Scott, Attorney General; Saul R. Wexler, Assistant Attorney General, and Vincent Biskupic, Special Assistant Attorney, for Respondent."
  },
  "file_name": "0531-01",
  "first_page_order": 551,
  "last_page_order": 552
}