233 - Award or judgment.
§ 233. Award or judgment. No award shall be made or judgment rendered herein against the state unless the facts proved shall make out a case against the state, which would create a liability, were the same established in a court of law or equity against an individual or corporation or municipality; and in case such liability shall be satisfactorily established, then the court of claims shall award to and render judgment for the claimants for such sums as shall be just and equitable, notwithstanding the lapse of time since the accruing of said damages, provided any claim hereunder accruing prior to the twenty-ninth day of April, nineteen hundred and seven, shall have been filed with the court of claims within one year thereafter and provided any claim hereunder accruing after said twenty-ninth day of April, nineteen hundred and seven, shall be filed with the court of claims within two years after the accrual thereof.