Talley v. State

Claimant, an inmate of an Illinois penal institution, has brought this action for monetary damages arising out of the alleged loss of “intimate correspondence and future relationship with person that cared about Claimant’s well being enough to write and call from another county (sic), loss of time in painting, a painting and the materials used in painting a painting as well as mental and grievous suffering in the loss of a friend which cared and took Claimant for his word in trusting that he would send the oil painting to her in the total sum of $7,000.00.”

Claimant’s claim sounds in tort for…