Court of Claims of Illinois November 26, 1918 (Edgar v. State)

This claim is filed by Jeanne Edgar, the surviving widow of Maxwell Edgar, deceased, against the State, for $20,000 damages for the death of her husband, Maxwell Edgar. Said Edgar was a lawyer by profession and a resident of Chicago. On April 6, 1917, he ivas committed to the State Hospital for the Insane at Elgin, Illinois, suffering from Paresis.