WATLAND, INC., Claimant, v. STATE OF ILLINOIS, Respondent.

Case summary

Claimant sought payment for Verifax supplies delivered to the Department of Public Health. The court awarded $69.40 because the only reason for nonpayment was that the appropriation for the 73rd biennium had lapsed.

Claim type: Lapsed Appropriation

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Headnotes

CONTRACTS-bPSed appropriation. Where evidence disclosed that the only reason claim was not paid was because the appropriation lapsed prior to the time a statement was presented, an award will be made.

WATLAND, INC., claimant, pro se. WILLIAM G . CLARK,Attorney General; GERALD S. GROBMAN, Assistant Attorney General, for Respondent.

DOVE, J.

Watland, Inc., claimant, presented its statement to the Department of Public Health for Verifax supplies in the amount of $69.40.

Claimant had prepared and filed with the Department of Public Health a statement for said amount, but payment of said claim was refused on the grounds that funds appropriated for the Department of Public Health for such payments had lapsed.

[*337] A Departmental Report was filed, which stated that the Verifax supplies had been received, and that said claimant was entitled to payment of the above amount.

Subsequently a stipulation was entered into between claimant and the Attorney General of the State of Illinois, which found that claimant was entitled to the sum of $69.40 for the Verifax supplies so delivered.

It appears that the sole reason for not paying claimant was that the appropriation for the 73rd biennium had lapsed.

Claimant is hereby awarded the sum of $69.40.