THE ELEGANTE LADIES’ APPAREL, INC ., Claimants, u. THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Respondent.
Case summary
The court increased a prior award by $3,721.92 to correct an error, awarding a total of $12,361.95 for damages caused by an escapee of a State hospital who started a fire.
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Headnotes
- H OSPITALS A N D INSTITUTIONS-UWUTdincreased on Court’s own motion.
THE ELEGANTE LADIES’ APPAREL, I N C ., Claimants, u. THE STATE
OF ILLINOIS, Respondent.
Supplemental opinion filed October 28,1980. ’
HOAGLAND, M AUKER, BERNARD AND ALMETER, for Claimant.
H OSPITALS A N D INSTITUTIONS-UWUTdincreased on Court’s own motion. On the Court’s own motion, the award ordered in an earlier opinion is increased to reflect the amount which was fully and adequately substantiated by the evidence in an action based on an escape followed by subsequent damages due to a fire caused by the escapee of a State hospital.
ROE, C. J. ’
This cause coming on to be heard on the Court’s own motion to modify the award ordered in the Opinion dated May 2, 1980, issued by the Court in this claim;
The court hereby finds:
1. That the amount awarded Claimants in the instant claim was erroneously entered as $8,640.03.
2. That the correct amount which should have been awarded Claimants, as fully and adequately substantiated by the evidence in this case, is $12,361.95.
3. That the award in the instant claim should be increased by $3,721.92.
It is hereby ordered that $3,721.92 be, and hereby is, awarded to Hoagland, Maucker, Bernard & Almeter on behalf of the Claimants in The Elegante Ladies’ Apparel, Inc., et al., Case No. 5899.
‘The original opinion in this case is published at 33 111. Ct. C1. 13.