Stone v. Chrans

PRESIDING JUSTICE McCULLOUGH

delivered the opinion of the court:

Petitioner, Rickey Stone, an inmate of the Pontiac Correctional Center, appeals the circuit court’s order granting respondents’ motion to strike the portion of petitioner’s complaint which requested money damages. The court found the claim for money damages was within the sole jurisdiction of the Illinois Court of Claims (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1983, ch. 37, par. 439.1 et seq.) and ordered the prayer for money damages stricken. We affirm.

On October 24, 1983, petitioner by institutional mail requested a copy of his mittimus papers. On…