CITY OF PONTIAC, Claimant, v. STATE OF ILLINOIS, Respondent.

Case summary

The City of Pontiac claimed $1,020.00 from the State of Illinois for costs of operating a sewage disposal plant serving the Illinois State Reformatory. The court awarded the full amount based on the Department of Public Welfare's approval and the Attorney General's consent.

Claim type: Other

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MUNICIPAL CORPORATION-when claim in favor of may be allowed. There being no dispute as to the facts in the case, and no objection made by the State, the court enters an award in favor of claimant for the amount of its claim. ROBERT M. NIVEN, for claimant. EDWARD J. BRUNDAGE, Attorney General; GEORGE C. DIXON, Assistant Attorney General, for respondent.

MR. JUSTICE LEBON delivered the opinion of the court:

This is a claim filed by the City of Pontiac, a municipal corporation, of the State of Illinois, in the sum of $1,020.00, due to said city from the State of Illinois, as a part of the cost of operating and maintaining a septic sewage disposal plant located near the City of Pontiac and through which all of the sewage of the Illinois State Reformatory, a State institution, is disposed of.

The claim has been investigated and approved by the Department of Public Welfare. The Attorney General of the State of Illinois consents to an award in the above amount, from February 1, 1922, to June 30, 1923, at the rate of $60.00 per month.

The court therefore awards the claimant the sum of $1,020.00.