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  "id": 5328356,
  "name": "Robert P. Studnicka, Claimant, v. State of Illinois, Respondent",
  "name_abbreviation": "Studnicka v. State",
  "decision_date": "1979-01-10",
  "docket_number": "No. 77-CC-1898",
  "first_page": "723",
  "last_page": "725",
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    {
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      "cite": "32 Ill. Ct. Cl. 723"
    }
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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": [
      "Robert P. Studnicka, Claimant, v. State of Illinois, Respondent."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Polos, C.J.\nClaimant, an inmate of the Joliet Correctional Center, asserts that in August, 1977, during the course of this transfer from the R & C Annex, a building where inmates had one-man cells, to segregation, certain of his personal property was lost, including a set of contact lenses, a portable radio, and a pair of wire frame glasses.\nRespondent introduced the testimony of one Lt. Cooper, an employee of the Joliet Correctional Center, who transferred Claimant\u2019s property. He testified that when he went to Claimant\u2019s cell it was locked and he found an officer to open it. He said that with the assistance of two prisoners he packed Claimant\u2019s property in six or seven large boxes. He testified, \u201cWe went through everything, Sir, desk drawers, everything that was in the cell, and got everything out of it.\u201d Cooper said that when he delivered the property to Claimant, Claimant inquired about his contact lenses. Cooper said he had not noticed any contact lenses when he was packing Claimant\u2019s property.\nEven if we were to find it there was a bailment relationship under the circumstances here, we find that Respondent has met its burden of proving that it acted with due care with respect to Claimant\u2019s property.\nLieutenant Cooper testified in detail as to each step he took with reference to packing and delivering Claimant\u2019s property. There was nothing in Lt. Cooper\u2019s testimony to indicate that he did not act with due care with respect to that property.\nWe therefore find that Claimant has failed to demonstrate by a preponderence of the evidence that the State did not act with due care with respect to his property.\nIt is therefore ordered that this claim be, and hereby is denied.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Polos, C.J."
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [],
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    "head_matter": "(No. 77-CC-1898\nRobert P. Studnicka, Claimant, v. State of Illinois, Respondent.\nOpinion filed January 10,1979."
  },
  "file_name": "0723-01",
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