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  "id": 5320798,
  "name": "In Re Application of Thelma Bryant",
  "name_abbreviation": "In re Bryant",
  "decision_date": "1978-03-28",
  "docket_number": "No. 00144",
  "first_page": "394",
  "last_page": "396",
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      "cite": "32 Ill. Ct. Cl. 394"
    }
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    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. Ct. Cl.",
    "id": 8793,
    "name": "Illinois Court of Claims"
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    "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 Thelma Bryant."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Per Curiam.\nThis claim arising out of the death of a fireman 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, Thelma Bryant, is the widow of the decedent, and is the beneficiary who was designated by him as stated in her application for benefits.\n2. The decedent, Lloyd Bryant, age 66, was a volunteer fireman, of the rank of Assistant Chief of the Centraba Fire Protection District and engaged in the active performance of his duties, within the meaning of Section 2(e) of the Act, on February 1, 1978.\n3. On February 1, 1978, at approximately 9:34 a.m., Assistant Chief Bryant was summoned, from his home by fire department radio call to the fire station. Officer Bryant, in full firefighting uniform and equipment, drove the fire department\u2019s auxiliary fire hose truck to a factory building fire scene, where he pulled a 50 ffeet section of hose from the truck, attached it to a hydrant, and drove the truck to within 30 to 40. feet of the burning building. The hose was then connected to a pumper truck, and Bryant drove the truck about one-half block away to block traffic from entering the area. As Officer Bryant walked from the truck, towards the fire, he collapsed. Emergency care was administered, and he was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead in the emergency room at 10:30 a.m. the same date. The death certificate furnished recites the immediate cause of death as \u201capparent myocardial infarction,\u201d due to, or as a consequence of \u201cdiabetes mellitis,\u201d and the evidence presented indicates that Officer Bryant\u2019s death was caused and precipitated by the active performance of the duties required of him as a member of the Centralia Fire Protection District.\n4. Assistant Chief Bryant was killed in the line of duty as defined in Section 2(e) of the Act.\n5. That 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 Thelma Bryant, as widow and designated beneficiary of the deceased fire officer, Lloyd Bryant.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Per Curiam."
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [],
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    "head_matter": "(No. 00144\nIn Re Application of Thelma Bryant.\nOpinion filed March 28, 1978."
  },
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