DEBORAH WOODHOUSECATLETT, Claimant, v. THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Respondent.
Case summary
Claimant sought damages for injuries sustained when the car she was a passenger in hit a rut on Interstate 57, causing an accident. The court awarded $40,000 based on a joint stipulation of the parties.
Statutes cited: Ill. Rev. Stat. 1983, ch. 37, par. 439.8(d)
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Headnotes
- STiPuLATIoNS-car hit rut in highway-driver injured-award granted. Based on the joint stipulation of the parties, an award was granted to a Claimant who was injured when her car crashed into a ditch after hitting a rut in a highway.
This matter is before the Court on the joint stipulation of the parties. This claim sounds in tort and is brought pursuant to section 8(d) of the Court of Claims Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1983, ch. 37, par. 439.8(d)).
The incident involved herein occurred on October 16, 1982, at or near mile marker 273 on Interstate 57 in Iroquois County, Illinois. The wheel of the car in which Claimant was a passenger caught in a rut in the pavement, causing the car to careen off the roadway into a nearby ditch. Claimaint suffered fractured vertebrae and other injuries as a result of the accident.
[*100] Based on the foregoing, Claimant, Deborah W. Catlett, is hereby awarded the sum ,of forty thousand ($40,000.00) dollars in full and final satisfaction of this claim.