{
  "id": 3057716,
  "name": "River Oaks Mobile Home Park, Claimant, v. The State of Illinois, Respondent",
  "name_abbreviation": "River Oaks Mobile Home Park v. State",
  "decision_date": "1985-08-07",
  "docket_number": "No. 84-CC-1962",
  "first_page": "270",
  "last_page": "271",
  "citations": [
    {
      "type": "official",
      "cite": "38 Ill. Ct. Cl. 270"
    }
  ],
  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. Ct. Cl.",
    "id": 8793,
    "name": "Illinois Court of Claims"
  },
  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
  },
  "cites_to": [],
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  "last_updated": "2023-07-14T19:09:05.193768+00:00",
  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "River Oaks Mobile Home Park, Claimant, v. The State of Illinois, Respondent."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Raucci, J.\nRespondent\u2019s State police car, driven by Trooper A. Martinez, collided with Claimant\u2019s vehicle on November 20, 1982. The police car struck the left rear of Claimant\u2019s vehicle as Claimant\u2019s vehicle was completing a left turn into a gas station on Route 30 near Torrence Avenue in Sauk Village, Cook County, Illinois. Both vehicles had been eastbound on Route 30 at approximately 10:00 p.m. on a \u201cmisty\u201d night.\nClaimant suffered property damage in the amount of $1,039.33. The disposition of this case is controlled by the Court\u2019s finding on the issue of whether the police car had its siren on and Mars lights on at the time of the accident.\nThe officer testified he had both his siren and Mars lights on immediately prior to the accident, but turned the siren off about two car lengths away from Claimant\u2019s vehicle. Two employees of Claimant, who were in Claimant\u2019s vehicle at the time of the accident, testified that neither the siren nor Mars lights were on prior to the accident.\nAn independent witness, John J. Grindl, an employee of the gas station, who had a clear, unobstructed view of the accident, testified that neither the siren nor Mars lights were on at the time of the accident.\nTrooper Martinez was going into the gas station for the purpose of investigating a prior accident. At the time the instant claim arose, other police officers were in the gas station. None of them were called as witnesses in this cause.\nBased upon the evidence addressed in this cause, the Court finds that the police car did not have either its siren or Mars lights operating at the time of the accident.\nThe amount of damages claimed is not disputed by Respondent.\nWherefore, the Claimant is awarded $1,039.33 in full satisfaction of this claim.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Raucci, J."
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Lowell Snore, for Claimant.",
      "Neil F. Hartigan, Attorney General (Kathleen O\u2019Brien, Assistant Attorney General, of counsel), for Respondent."
    ],
    "corrections": "",
    "head_matter": "(No. 84-CC-1962\nRiver Oaks Mobile Home Park, Claimant, v. The State of Illinois, Respondent.\nOpinion filed August 7, 1985.\nLowell Snore, for Claimant.\nNeil F. Hartigan, Attorney General (Kathleen O\u2019Brien, Assistant Attorney General, of counsel), for Respondent."
  },
  "file_name": "0270-01",
  "first_page_order": 356,
  "last_page_order": 357
}