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  "id": 5322321,
  "name": "St. John's Hospital of the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis, an Illinois not-for-profit Corporation, Claimant, v. State of Illinois, Respondent",
  "name_abbreviation": "St. John's Hospital v. State",
  "decision_date": "1978-01-25",
  "docket_number": "No. 76-CC-1070",
  "first_page": "160",
  "last_page": "162",
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      "cite": "32 Ill. Ct. Cl. 160"
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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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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "St. John\u2019s Hospital of the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis, an Illinois not-for-profit Corporation, Claimant, v. State of Illinois, Respondent."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Holderman, J.\nThis matter comes before the Court on a claim filed by Claimant for services rendered to one David W. Landers.\nDavid W. Landers was a resident of Springfield Township, Sangamon County, Illinois, and at the time of his hospitalization was in the legal custody of the Juvenile Division, Department of Corrections of the State of Illinois.\nDavid W. Landers was injured in an automobile accident and was taken by emergency vehicle to a hospital where the emergency treatment was rendered for which Claimant now seeks to recover.\nThis claim was previously presented to the Circuit Court of the Seventh Judicial Circuit, Sangamon County, Illinois, Cause No. 75-LM-808. In that cause, Claimant sought relief against two townships, they being the area in which the parents of the injured party lived at the time of the accident.\nAt the time of the accident, David W. Landers was on parole to his parents\u2019 home.\nThe Circuit Court of Sangamon County entered an order, filed December 18,1975, in which the plaintiff s cause of action was dismissed without prejudice. The order stated that the Director of Juvenile Division, Department of Corrections, was legally liable to pay for such hospital services and that since Landers was not indigent, the two townships could not be held liable. The Court further held that the claim must be pursued in the Court of Claims.\nRespondent denies liability on the theory that the injured party was not in the actual physical custody and control of the State at the time of the accident in question.\nThe hospital finds itself in the unenviable position of being compelled by law to furnish services to each and every individual who is brought to its doors and then finds that no one cares to assume the responsibility of paying for treatment rendered.\nIt is not denied by any party herein that the treatment was necessary, that it was furnished, and that the amount claimed is fair and reasonable.\nClaimant contends that Ill. Rev. Stat., Ch. 38, paras. 1003-14-3 provides that the Department can purchase \u201cnecessary services\u201d for a parolee and Claimant further contends that medical treatment was a necessary service.\nRespondent\u2019s theory is that the statute merely authorizes the department to purchase the services and does not require it to.\nThere was also some question raised as to whether the Department of Public Aid or the Department of Corrections was the proper department. This seems rather immaterial because in either instance, the State is held liable.\nIt is the opinion of this Court that Claimant was in the legal custody of the Department of Corrections at the time the services were rendered and that said services should be paid for by the State.\nAn award is hereby made to Claimant in the amount of $1,952.62.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Holderman, J."
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Graham & Graham, Attorneys for Claimant.",
      "William J. Scott, Attorney General; William E. Webber and Lawrence W. Reisch, Jr., Assistant Attorneys General, for Respondent."
    ],
    "corrections": "",
    "head_matter": "(No. 76-CC-1070\nSt. John\u2019s Hospital of the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis, an Illinois not-for-profit Corporation, Claimant, v. State of Illinois, Respondent.\nOpinion filed January 25, 1978.\nGraham & Graham, Attorneys for Claimant.\nWilliam J. Scott, Attorney General; William E. Webber and Lawrence W. Reisch, Jr., Assistant Attorneys General, for Respondent."
  },
  "file_name": "0160-01",
  "first_page_order": 274,
  "last_page_order": 276
}