JAMES G. DAVIS, DIRECTOR GENERAL OF RAILROADS AND AGENT AP- POINTED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES PURSUANT TO THE TERMS OF THE TRANSPORTATION ACT OF 1920, v. STATE OF ILLINOIS.

Case summary

Claimant sought freight charges for transporting coal to a state institution. The court awarded the full amount claimed because the state did not object and the Attorney General consented to the award.

Claim type: Contract

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Headnotes

JAMES G. DAVIS, DIRECTOR GENERAL OF RAILROADS AND AGENT AP- FREIGHT CHARGES-liability of State. The State is liable for freight

Edward J. Brundage, Attorney General, for State. and the Attorney General representing defendant, consents to an award

JAMES G. DAVIS, DIRECTOR GENERAL OF RAILROADS AND AGENT APPOINTED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES PURSUANT TO THE TERMS OF THE TRANSPORTATION ACT OF 1920, v.

STATE OF ILLINOIS.

Opinion filed May 9, 1922.

FREIGHT CHARGES-liability of State. The State is liable for freight charges for transportation of coal by claimant to State institution.

Edward J. Brundage, Attorney General, for State.

This is a claim of James G. Davis, Director General of Railroads and agent appointed by the President of the United States pursuant to the terms of the Transportation Act of 1920, for freight charges for transportation of coal during March and April 1918, over C. P. & St.

L. R. R. to Illinois School for the Deaf, Jacksonville, Illinois, in the sum of two hundred eighty-eight and 65/100 ($288.65) dollars. No objection or defense of the claim is interposed by or on behalf of the State and the Attorney General representing defendant, consents to an award herein in the sum of two hundred eighty-eight and 65/100 ($288.65) dollars.

We therefore award the claimant the sum of two hundred eightyeight and 65/100 ($288.65) dollars.