Lind v. State

Claimant, Jeffrey A. Lind, by his mother and next friend, seeks to recover from the State of Illinois a sum of $25,000.00 for personal injuries allegedly sustained as a result of Respondent’s negligence, whereby Claimant was severely and permanently injured.

The undisputed facts are as follows: Jeffrey Lind, on August 3, 1966, was seventeen years of age and a full-time employee in Havana, Illinois; on the day of the accident, he had been working in Vermont, Illinois. That morning he had ridden to work as a passenger on the motorcycle of Roger Lynn Mason. As they rode to work in a westerly…