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  "id": 5323787,
  "name": "In Re Application of Marion J. Weston",
  "name_abbreviation": "In re Weston",
  "decision_date": "1978-11-14",
  "docket_number": "Case No. 00141",
  "first_page": "1044",
  "last_page": "1046",
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      "cite": "32 Ill. Ct. Cl. 1044"
    }
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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": {
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    "parties": [
      "In Re Application of Marion J. Weston."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Per Curiam.\nThis claim allegedly arising out of the death of a police chief killed in the line of duty, seeks payment of compensation to the decedent\u2019s beneficiary 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., 1977.\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 Court on October 24, 1978, the Court finds that:\n1. The Claimant, Marion J. Weston, is the widow of the decedent, and, in the absence of a designation of beneficiary, is the person entitled to receive benefits pursuant to the Act;\n2. The decedent, Arthur L. Weston, was the police chief, employed by the Rockton Police Department, and engaged in the active performance of his duties, within the meaning of Section 2(e) of the Act, on October 27,1977. He was 52 years of age;\nOn said date, at approximately 9:15 a.m., Chief Weston was stricken with a heart attack immediately after having seized and arrested a burglary suspect in a residential building in Rockton. Chief Weston apprehended the suspect, an escapee from a mental health center, after calling for the assistance of other police at 8:34 a.m., reporting a \u201cburglary in progress.\u201d The coroner\u2019s certificate of death recited the immediate cause of death as \u201cprobable myocardial infarct,\u201d due to or as a consequence of \u201carteriosclerotic heart disease,\u201d and Chief Weston was pronounced \u201cdead on arrival\u201d at 10:57 a.m., the same date at the hospital to which he was taken directly from, the burglary scene;\n4. Chief Weston was killed in the line of duty as defined in Section 2(e) of the Act;\nThe 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, by reason of the foregoing, that the sum of $20,000.00 be paid to Marion J. Weston, widow of the deceased Police Chief, Arthur L. Weston.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Per Curiam."
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Paddock, McGreevy and Johnson, by John C. Tower,. Attorneys for Claimant.",
      "William J. Scott, Attorney General; Vincent J. Biskupic, Special Assistant Attorney General."
    ],
    "corrections": "",
    "head_matter": "(Case No. 00141\nIn Re Application of Marion J. Weston.\nOpinion filed November 14, 1978.\nPaddock, McGreevy and Johnson, by John C. Tower,. Attorneys for Claimant.\nWilliam J. Scott, Attorney General; Vincent J. Biskupic, Special Assistant Attorney General."
  },
  "file_name": "1044-01",
  "first_page_order": 1158,
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}