{
  "id": 2812165,
  "name": "The Alton Railroad Company, Claimant, vs. State of Illinois, Respondent",
  "name_abbreviation": "Alton Railroad v. State",
  "decision_date": "1936-01-15",
  "docket_number": "No. 2714",
  "first_page": "135",
  "last_page": "136",
  "citations": [
    {
      "type": "official",
      "cite": "9 Ill. Ct. Cl. 135"
    }
  ],
  "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": "2023-07-14T21:23:12.493466+00:00",
  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "The Alton Railroad Company, Claimant, vs. State of Illinois, Respondent."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Chief Justice Hollerioh\ndelivered the opinion of the court:\nClaimant demands the sum 'of $26.73 for freight charges on certain shipments of merchandise transported over its lines from the Southern Illinois Penitentiary at Menard, Illinois and from the Illinois State Penitentiary at Joliet, Illinois to the Illinois Soldiers\u2019 and Sailors\u2019 Children\u2019s School at Normal, Illinois. All shipments were carried at the established traffic rate for such merchandise and the freight charges therefor remain wholly unpaid.\nIt is admitted that the merchandise was received by the consignee, and Mr. A. L. Bowen, Director of the Department of Public Welfare, in his report on the claim, stated that the same should be paid.\nAward is therefore entered in favor of the claimant for the amount claimed, to-wit, Twenty-six Dollars and Seventy-three Cents ($26.73).",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Chief Justice Hollerioh"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "William L. Patton and Silas H. Stbawn, for claimant.",
      "Otto Keener, Attorney General; Glenn A. Trevor, Assistant Attorney General, for respondent."
    ],
    "corrections": "",
    "head_matter": "(No. 2714\nThe Alton Railroad Company, Claimant, vs. State of Illinois, Respondent.\nOpinion filed January 15, 1936.\nWilliam L. Patton and Silas H. Stbawn, for claimant.\nOtto Keener, Attorney General; Glenn A. Trevor, Assistant Attorney General, for respondent."
  },
  "file_name": "0135-01",
  "first_page_order": 155,
  "last_page_order": 156
}