(No. 1803-Claimant awarded $3,500.00.) NORRIS, Deceased, Claimant, vs. STATE OF ILLINOIS, Respondent. FRANK M. RAMEY AND HOMER D. MCLAREN, for claimant. Assistant Attorney General, for respondent. MILLER ET AL. v. STATE OF ILLINOIS. 129
Case summary
The administrator of the estate of Edward J. Norkus, deceased, claimed $15,000 for his son's death. The court, following its decisions in consolidated cases, awarded $3,500 in full settlement.
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- PERSONAL INJURY-when award may be made-equity and good conscience.
NORRIS, Deceased, Claimant, vs. STATE OF ILLINOIS, Respondent.
Opinion filed January 11, 1933.
FRANK M. RAMEY AND HOMER D. MCLAREN, for claimant.
OSCAR E. CARLSTROM, Attorney General; CARL DIETZ, Assistant Attorney General, for respondent. [*129]
PERSONAL INJURY-when award may be made-equity and good conscience.
The facts in this case are the same as those in Nos. 1801 and 1802, ante, and the evidence and briefs were consolidated with same and the opinion in said cases is controlling herein.
Mr. JUSTICE ROE delivered the opinion of the court: In this case damages in the amount of Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($15,000.00) are claimed by William Norkus, Administrator of the estate of his son, Edward J. Norkus, deceased, age eighteen.
The evidence and briefs having been consolidated in this case with Cases No. 1801 and No. 1802, and the facts and arguments being the same as in the above cases, the finding of this court will be the same. Please refer to the opinion and findings in the cases of Peter C. Pacheco, Administrator of the estates of Eugene Pacheco and Peter E. Pacheco, deceased.
It is therefore also recommended by this court that this claim be allowed and an award is made of $3,500.00 in full settlement of all claims arising from this accident, and recommend that the same be paid.