{
  "id": 5347228,
  "name": "William Balke, et al., Claimant, vs. State of Illinois, Respondent",
  "name_abbreviation": "Balke v. State",
  "decision_date": "1925-01-28",
  "docket_number": "No. 26",
  "first_page": "49",
  "last_page": "50",
  "citations": [
    {
      "type": "official",
      "cite": "5 Ill. Ct. Cl. 49"
    }
  ],
  "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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  "last_updated": "2023-07-14T21:18:23.872152+00:00",
  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "William Balke, et al., Claimant, vs. State of Illinois, Respondent."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Phillips\ndelivered the opinion of the court:\nThis claim is brought by William Balke and twenty-nine farmers of Madison county, Illinois, for the recovery of the respective amounts claimed to be due them respectively from defendant for formaldehyde furnished by them in the year 1922 at the request of the State. The facts in the declaration are fully proven and not denied by the State and are as follows : In 1921 the Department of Agriculture of Illinois quarantined the territory embracing the farms of claimants and burnt their wheat straw and bought formaldehyde and treated their wheat therewith in the same year. In the year 1922 complainants were compelled by order of said institution to use formaldehyde again on their wheat; and requested that they buy and use same and the State would pay for same, as this department had exhausted its funds. Claimants bought and used the formaldehyde and used same as directed by the State to eliminate \u201cBlack Flag\u201d from the wheat in the infested district and now claim the amounts following their respective names, which claims we hereby award to them as follows:\nClaimants. - Awards.\nWilliam Balke ..................................... $ 6.05\nRobert Bonensteihl ................................ 9.24\nG. Brockmeyer .................................... 21.50\nCharles Beusking.................................. 5.25\nLouis Friedman ................................... 6.50\nHenry Fulreide ..................................... 10.25\nCharles Hydron ................................... 50.38\nHenry Johann ..................................... 12.48\nFred Kassing...................................... 4.45\nClaimants. Awards.\nMac Ke-llar ........................................ 14.00\nHenry Kruss ...................................... 4.25\nH. C. Landwehrmeier .............................. 18.92+5.50 \u25a0\nF. Langreder......................... 3.95\nWm. Maack'....................................... 4.45\nCharles Miecamp ...'............................... 8.15\nWm. McCormick ................x.................. 17.22\nPhil Morrison ..................................... 16.25\nCharles Rathert ................................... 6.44\nMrs. Sepmeyer (full name not in evidence) ........ 11.10\nLouis Soechtig & Son............................... 4.85\nW. E. Sponeman .................................. 13.05.\nJohn Watselc ...................................... 23.24\nNick Werner ...................................... 4'. 40\nJ. J. Willeredt..................................... 4.85\nTheodore Wille.....,............................... 10.65\nJulius Wille ....................................... 8.06\nFred Zaiicek 1.................................. 5.25\nH. B. Koeller...................................... 50.38\nFred Straub ....................................... 50.38\nTotal ......................................... $411.44",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice Phillips"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Burton & Burton, for claimant.",
      "\u2022 Edward J. Brundage, Attorney General; George 0. Dixon, Assistant Attorney General, for respondent."
    ],
    "corrections": "",
    "head_matter": "(No. 26\nWilliam Balke, et al., Claimant, vs. State of Illinois, Respondent.\nOpinion filed January 28, 1925.\nBurton & Burton, for claimant.\n\u2022 Edward J. Brundage, Attorney General; George 0. Dixon, Assistant Attorney General, for respondent."
  },
  "file_name": "0049-01",
  "first_page_order": 71,
  "last_page_order": 72
}