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  "id": 5351042,
  "name": "Dora Girhard, Claimant, vs. State of Illinois, Respondent",
  "name_abbreviation": "Girhard v. State",
  "decision_date": "1927-01-19",
  "docket_number": "No. 988",
  "first_page": "259",
  "last_page": "260",
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      "cite": "5 Ill. Ct. Cl. 259"
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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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    "parties": [
      "Dora Girhard, Claimant, vs. State of Illinois, Respondent."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Clarity\ndelivered the opinion of the court:\nThe facts as appearing in this case are not disputed. It appears that Paul W. Girhard was an employe of the automobile department of the Secretary of State\u2019s office as an Automobile Investigator at a salary of $150.00 per month and expenses. He was furnished a motorcycle with side car in which to travel and was ordered to do duty in different parts of the State. On Oct. 25,1925, under orders from the Secretary of State\u2019s 'office, he proceeded on his motorcycle to Fairmont a racing track near Collinsville, Illinois, to assist in taking care of the traffic there, and while returning from such employment on Oct. 31, 1925, to his home in Newton, Illinois, over Route 11, and when just east of Vandalia' near an intersection he met an automobile approaching with its bright lights on, while at the same time there was a horse and buggy in front of them. Presumably the lights from the approaching car blinded him causing his motorcycle to strike the wheels of the buggy upsetting his motorcycle and throwing him to the pavement, his head striking the concrete causing a fracture of the skull and concussion of the brain which caused his death on Nov. 6, 1925.\nThe Attorney General comes and files statement, brief and argument in which the facts are admitted in so far as the deceased was a State employe and was engaged in a line of duty as such employe at the time of his death by said accident. The Secretary of State forwarded a letter to the Attorney General\u2019s office in which he recommended and urged that this case be settled on the basis of the Workmen\u2019s Compensation Act.\nThe Attorney General also suggests that under the Workmen\u2019s Compensation Act in this case said claimant should receive $3,750.00, plus the necessary medical, surgical, hospitalization and nursing services which, appear to amount to $133.00 in this case.\nIt is therefore considered by the court that the claimant be allowed the sum of $3,883.00.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice Clarity"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Kasserman and Kasserman, for claimant.",
      "Oscar E. Carlstrom, Attorney General ; Frank R. Eagleton, Assistant Attorney General, for respondent."
    ],
    "corrections": "",
    "head_matter": "(No. 988\nDora Girhard, Claimant, vs. State of Illinois, Respondent.\nOpinion filed January 19, 1927.\nKasserman and Kasserman, for claimant.\nOscar E. Carlstrom, Attorney General ; Frank R. Eagleton, Assistant Attorney General, for respondent."
  },
  "file_name": "0259-01",
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  "last_page_order": 282
}