{
  "id": 5319886,
  "name": "In Re Application of Arline Sorby",
  "name_abbreviation": "In re Sorby",
  "decision_date": "1979-05-23",
  "docket_number": "Case No. 00166",
  "first_page": "1063",
  "last_page": "1065",
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      "cite": "32 Ill. Ct. Cl. 1063"
    }
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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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  "last_updated": "2023-07-14T16:54:10.322906+00:00",
  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "In Re Application of Arline Sorby."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Per Curiam.\nThis claim, arising out of the death of a fireman 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 full Court on April 19,1979, the Court finds as follows:\n1. That the Claimant, Arline Sorby, is the wife of the decedent, and in the absence of a designated beneficiary, Section 3(a) of the Act provides that any award hereunder shall be paid to the surviving widow.\n2. That the decedent, Robert C. Sorby, was a 24 year veteran of the Chicago Fire Department and was engaged in the active performance of his duties, within the meaning of Sec. 2(e) of the Act, on October 10,1978.\n3. Fireman Sorby began his regular 24-hour duty assignment at 8:00 a.m. and at 3:12 p.m. on October 10, 1978, and Sorby and others assigned to Engine Company Ten responded to an alarm of an \u201coil spill.\u201d While proceeding to the scene, Sorby fell from the engine truck on which he was riding, and he struck his head on the street. Fireman Sorby, unconscious, was taken to Resurrection Hospital and admitted at 4:00 p.m. He never regained consciousness and was pronounced dead at 7:40 a.m. on October 29, 1978. The medical examiner\u2019s certificate of death recites the immediate cause of death as \u201csevere skull fracture with intracranial and intracerebral hemorrhage.\u201d\nWe find, therefore:\na) that Fireman Sorby was killed in the line of duty as defined in Section 2(e) of the Act; and\nb) 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, and is hereby awarded to Arline Sorby, as wife and beneficiary of the deceased fireman, Robert C. Sorby.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Per Curiam."
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "James J. Reidy, Attorney for Claimant.",
      "William J. Scott, Attorney General; Francis M. Donovan, Assistant Attorney General, for Respondent."
    ],
    "corrections": "",
    "head_matter": "(Case No. 00166\nIn Re Application of Arline Sorby.\nOpinion filed May 23, 1979.\nJames J. Reidy, Attorney for Claimant.\nWilliam J. Scott, Attorney General; Francis M. Donovan, Assistant Attorney General, for Respondent."
  },
  "file_name": "1063-01",
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  "last_page_order": 1179
}