The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-12-13 00:00:00

RAILWAY DAMAGES.

At Sfaechee'er the canoe of •• Telt r v. the LOOkioll and
North-weeferu Railway Company," h. been Hod, and was
an action for pers eel nJ ry.

'The plaintiff is a IVealeyan Mini ter atationtd at
Widnes, and receiving a salary of 2200. Besides per-
forming the functions connected with the ministry, he
was held in great repute as a lecturer, and hail engage-
ments to lecture for three months ia advance. The
comitany admitted triple negligence. He was travelling
in November, 1872, in a second class carriage, when
his train ran into another. He was violently ahaken,
his nose was broken, and he has singe bi-in usable to
preach or lecture. There was a great shock te the
nervous system. His voice too, which had been clear
and strong, was now thick and weak. Fro% the
medial evidence it appeared that it would probably
take two years before he would be able to resume said
perform his former duties. Mr. Pope having ad-
dressed the jury in Mitigation of damages, they found
for the plaireliff—Damages, £2,500.

SCHOU V. THE LONDON ANT) NORTH-WESTERN
RAILWAY COMPANY.
Thl• was an action of a Ike nature against the same (lE.
%Wants.
The pl .intiff was a plessuger for a journey on di-
fendante line. The negligence charged was in their
servants not closing and fastening the door of the
carriage in which plaintiff was riding on the train
lesciug Earlittown Juirition, and, happening to rise In
the carriage while it was in motion and touching the
cloor, it flew open and he fell out. He was a painter
and grainer, and earned about 40s. a week. Toe
injuries were chiefly to the foot and leg.
The jury found for the plaintiff—Damages £250.

At the lianchester Asslva the cause of "Barnhill the
Oust Northern Railway ht. Impuy "ha. alto boo trlod, and
we. an action brought by the plaintiff to recover corapeir
pylon Ire. the defendants lor the Itss oth!. wife, who was
'ailed In an scildent 'orb let e,

The acaient occurred between Wakefield and Leeds
on the 25:h of January last, and damages were claimed
on behalf of the plaintiff's children, aged respectively
piece°, seven, six, four. ami three years, fer the loss of
their mother. The plaintiff himself is a fishmonger,
but the bw•iness was carried .12 chiefly by the suf.,
wlin was described as " the man of thellotl6o."
The 4. f n. lan C. did not diatoste their liability, but
paid £l3O into court.

The plaintiff @writ that rince h. wife's death his
baninere had fallen if conei•lerahly, and that he had
been obliged to employ an soviet-ant .In cruse exlinina-
tioia he admitted that he woe a bonkrtipt a year bet ne
the aocid.nt, and h .41 paid 2, fe.i. in the pound.
Mr. Atipinialll objec'ed bat there wee no lishilitr in
retard the ehildrt n, insionnith am the legal 2bligation
of in sluta.ning the ohddren rests on the father in his
liter .me.

Ur. u 4 ice Qoain wild be waa not prepariA torn!.
that the chlldren had no pecuniary int-rest in the life
of he mother, but he ehould take & now of the t bjec•
tion an allow the defendants to move.
. . .

The jnry return -d their verdict for £flO, in addition
to be like tutu already paid into curt, appropiiiting
Xll,O to the father and £2OO to the children.