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  "id": 5320058,
  "name": "In Re Application of June Maxine Burns",
  "name_abbreviation": "In re Burns",
  "decision_date": "1978-03-28",
  "docket_number": "No. 00138",
  "first_page": "389",
  "last_page": "391",
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      "cite": "32 Ill. Ct. Cl. 389"
    }
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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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    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
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    "parties": [
      "In Re Application of June Maxine Burns"
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Per Curiam.\nThis claim arising out of the death of a policeman allegedly killed in the line of duty, seeks payment of compensation to the decedent\u2019s beneficiaries pursuant to the provisions of the \u201cLaw Enforcement Officers and Firemen Compensation Act,\u201d (hereafter, the Act), Ill. Rev. Stat., Ch. 48, Sec. 281, et seq., 1975.\nThe Court has carefully considered the application for benefits submitted on the form prescribed and furnished by the Attorney General; a written statement of the decedent\u2019s supervising officer; and a report by the Illinois Attorney General\u2019s office which substantiates matters set forth in the application. Based upon these documents and other evidence submitted at a hearing before the full Court on March 15,1978, the Court finds that:\n1. The Claimant, June Maxine Burns, is the mother of the decedent and is the beneficiary who was designated by him.\n2. The decedent, Robert Broshears, age 25, was a patrolman employed by the East St. Louis Police Department and engaged in the active performance of his duties, within the meaning of Section 2(e) of the Act, on June 23, 1977.\n3. On said date, at approximately 3:15 p.m., within his regular work hours and pursuant to his duty assignment, Officer Broshears was struck by a tractor-trailer truck while he was investigating, and assisting, at the scene of an earlier automobile accident. Officer Broshears was pronounced dead at 4:40 p.m., the same date, at the hospital to which he had been taken, and the Coroner\u2019s certificate of death recites the immediate cause of death as \u201cmassive head and chest injuries.\u201d\n4. Officer Broshears was killed in the line of duty as defined in section 2(e) of the Act.\n5. The proof submitted in support of this claim satisfies all of the requirements of the Act, and the claim is therefore compensable thereunder.\nIt is hereby ordered that the sum of $20,000.00 be awarded to Ruth Maxine Burns, as mother and designated beneficiary of the deceased patrolman, Robert Broshears.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Per Curiam."
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Robert J. Hillebrand, Attorney for Claimant.",
      "William J. Scott, Attorney General for Illinois; Vincent J. Biskupic, Assistant Attorney General, for Respondent."
    ],
    "corrections": "",
    "head_matter": "(No. 00138\nIn Re Application of June Maxine Burns\nOpinion filed March 28, 1978.\nRobert J. Hillebrand, Attorney for Claimant.\nWilliam J. Scott, Attorney General for Illinois; Vincent J. Biskupic, Assistant Attorney General, for Respondent."
  },
  "file_name": "0389-01",
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  "last_page_order": 505
}