{
  "id": 5353626,
  "name": "Stanley Stachowiak, Claimant, vs. State of Illinois, Respondent",
  "name_abbreviation": "Stachowiak v. State",
  "decision_date": "1927-03-10",
  "docket_number": "No. 683",
  "first_page": "275",
  "last_page": "276",
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      "cite": "5 Ill. Ct. Cl. 275"
    }
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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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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Stanley Stachowiak, Claimant, vs. State of Illinois, Respondent."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Leech\ndelivered the opinion of the court:\nThis is a claim for damages caused by reason of an accident which occurred on the morning of May 2, 1924, between six and seven o\u2019clock at the intersection of Hickory and Euby streets in the city of Joliet, Illinois, whereby claimant was struck by a truck operated by an inmate of the state penitentiary.\nThe truck continued traveling after striking the claimant, for a distance of about fifteen feet or more, when it crashed into a curbing north of Buby street, and there is some testimony to the effect that the driver of the truck did not sound his horn until he was about to strike claimant. This testimony is contradicted by witnesses for the State. We are of the opinion that the driver of the State truck was guilty of negligence in not stopping his car when he saw the claimant crossing the street \u201chead down.\u201d It is the duty of the driver of an automobile or truck to keep a careful and prudent lookout for pedestrians, in order to avoid colliding with them. From the evidence submitted here on behalf of claimant, this was not done.\nAs the amount of damages, it appears from the evidence that claimant was disabled for a period of six months, and that he was earning about $3.60 a day, and that he incurred a doctor\u2019s bill amounting to $50.00.\nWhile we do not believe that there is any legal liability on the part of the State for damages sustained by the claimant, yet as a matter of equity and good conscience we award to claimant $260.00.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice Leech"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Gorey & Gorey, for claimant.",
      "Oscar E. Carlstrom, Attorney General; Frank B. Eagleton, Assistant Attorney General, for respondent."
    ],
    "corrections": "",
    "head_matter": "(No. 683\nStanley Stachowiak, Claimant, vs. State of Illinois, Respondent.\nOpinion filed March 10, 1927.\nGorey & Gorey, for claimant.\nOscar E. Carlstrom, Attorney General; Frank B. Eagleton, Assistant Attorney General, for respondent."
  },
  "file_name": "0275-02",
  "first_page_order": 297,
  "last_page_order": 298
}