Holmes v. State

This is a claim by Berto G. Holmes against the State of Illinois for damages for injuries to his person and property sustained as the result of the fall of a bridge over a “feeder” of the Illinois and Michigan canal. Claim is made for five thousand ($5,000.00) dollars, but this is reduced to seventeen hundred and forty-four dollars ($1,744.00) dollars by the bill of particulars filed by claimant. The case is submitted on the evidence introduced by claimant, with the stipulation that in the decision of the case, the evidence introduced in the case of Chas. A. Peterson, Admr. v. The State,…