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  "id": 2804421,
  "name": "W. H. Pester, Claimant, vs. State of Illinois, Respondent",
  "name_abbreviation": "Pester v. State",
  "decision_date": "1935-05-31",
  "docket_number": "No. 2661",
  "first_page": "598",
  "last_page": "598",
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      "type": "official",
      "cite": "8 Ill. Ct. Cl. 598"
    }
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. Ct. Cl.",
    "id": 8793,
    "name": "Illinois Court of Claims"
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  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "W. H. Pester, Claimant, vs. State of Illinois, Respondent."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Tantis\ndelivered the opinion of the court:\nClaimant operates a blacksmith shop at Grays Lake, Illinois. The claim herein filed is for Ten and 40/100 Dollars ($10.40) for work done by him in 1931 and 1932 at the request of State Highway Maintenance men working under the direqtion of the Elgin office. C. W. Ross, Assistant Engineer of Maintenance, in a report dated May 7,1935 states:\n\u201cThe items listed in this declaration were incurred by maintenance patrolmen who were replaced in February, 1933. We had no knowledge of these bills until after the close of the biennium ending June 30, 1933 \u2014 -it is our opinion the claim should be paid.\u201d\n\u201cWhere the facts are undisputed that the State received supplies \u2014 or labor \u2014 legally ordered by it and the bill therefor has not been presented for payment until after the lapse of the appropriation out of which such payment could have been made, an award for the amount due is proper.\u201d\nShell Petroleum Corp. vs. State 7 C. C. R. 224.\nAn award is hereby allowed in favor of claimant in the sum of Ten and 40/100 Dollars ($10.40).",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice Tantis"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "W. H. Pester, pro se.",
      "Otto Keener, Attorney General; John Kasserman, Assistant Attorney General, for respondent."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "(No. 2661\nW. H. Pester, Claimant, vs. State of Illinois, Respondent.\nOpinion filed May 31, 1935.\nW. H. Pester, pro se.\nOtto Keener, Attorney General; John Kasserman, Assistant Attorney General, for respondent."
  },
  "file_name": "0598-01",
  "first_page_order": 620,
  "last_page_order": 620
}