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  "id": 5354400,
  "name": "Clifford C. Hood, Claimant, vs. State of Illinois, Respondent",
  "name_abbreviation": "Hood v. State",
  "decision_date": "1927-01-19",
  "docket_number": "No. 967",
  "first_page": "256",
  "last_page": "257",
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      "cite": "5 Ill. Ct. Cl. 256"
    }
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. Ct. Cl.",
    "id": 8793,
    "name": "Illinois Court of Claims"
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    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
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    "batch": "2018"
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    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Clifford C. Hood, Claimant, vs. State of Illinois, Respondent."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Thomas\ndelivered the opinion of the court:\nOn August 29, 1925, a tractor belonging to Battery B, 123rd Field Artillery, while being driven along a street in Monmouth, Illinois, by a private of the organization, in military movement, under command of a superior officer, crashed \u00bb into the automobile of claimant and badly damaged it. .\nOn September 3, 1925, the board of officers of the 123rd Field Artillery met and heard evidence as to the cause of the accident and the amount of the damages. The board found that the accident was unavoidable and was caused by a defective .steering apparatus on the tractor, and that neither the driver of the tractor, the owner of the automobile nor the officer in command was to blame. They further found the amount of damages to the automobile to be approximately $350.\nThe Attorney General has filed a statement, attaching thereto and making a part thereof a letter from the Adjutant General. In the Adjutant General\u2019s letter he states that the claim is a just, one against the State, and that he does not wish to contest it.\nThe State is not legally liable for an act of a State militiaman while in military movement. Therefore, this claim is rejected.\nHowever, as it appears there is merit in this claim, as an act of social justice the court recommends to the General Assembly that it appropriate-to the claimant the sum of $350.00 to reimburse him for the damage sustained.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice Thomas"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "E. P. Field, for claimant.",
      "Oscar E. Carlstrom, Attorney General ; Frank R. Eagleton, Assistant Attorney General, for respondent."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "(No. 967\nClifford C. Hood, Claimant, vs. State of Illinois, Respondent.\nOpinion filed January 19, 1927.\nE. P. Field, for claimant.\nOscar E. Carlstrom, Attorney General ; Frank R. Eagleton, Assistant Attorney General, for respondent."
  },
  "file_name": "0256-01",
  "first_page_order": 278,
  "last_page_order": 279
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