Court of Claims of Illinois February 10, 1942, No. 3360 (Bowers v. State)

Fisher, J.

This claim was filed February 8,1939, for Four Thousand Dollars ($4,000.00). Frank Bowers, the deceased husband of claimant, was employed as a fireman at the Southern Illinois Normal University and on November 10, 1938, while engaged in his usual duties as a fireman in the boiler room of said institution was cleaning a steam driven feed pump when the index finger of his right hand was