St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-18
ants or any of them. Judgment may
be entered accordingly.

ants or any of them. Judgment may
be entered accordingly.
HEAVY DAMAGES ASKED.
E. A. Hall filed suit against the
Chicago, Burlington 81 Northern Rail
road company yesterday in which he
asks for the sum of $4,000 for injuries
received while acting in the capacity Of
engineer on the Burlington road. At
$3.50 O'Clock the night of Nov. 80, 1883,
Hall pulled his train out of the union
depot on the usual run to st. Paul Park.
When the train reached point about
one mile below the Dayton's bluff sta
ton and about three miles from the
city it crashed into freight train stand
ing on the main track, OF which
position Hall had no notice whatever.
The engine and tender were demol-
lshed, and Hall was all but killed. His
face and arms were burned to the bone,
and his left hip and both legs Scalded so
that in many parts large portions of
flesh were removed and torn away. His
feet were crushed and mangled, and his
left ear was so badly scalded that the
flesh Sloughed off and left the bones and
sinewS bare, neceSSitating an amputa-
ton. An abscess formed in his hip This
mental faculties are probably perma-
nently impaired. and he is still confined
to his bed, suffering great pain aud
anguish. He has been compelled to eX-
pend over 81 900 for medical care and
attendance and nurses. He asks the
courl for Judgment for S50, 600 and costs.
John Graham, of Winona, Mimi, has
filed suit in the United States circuit
court against the Burlin gton, Cedar
Rapids & Northern Railway company
to recover $40, 900 damages for personal
Injuries received Dec. s, 1856, while en-
route from What Cheer station to
ThOrnburgh. A collision occurred be-
tween the train on which Graham was
a passenger and an engine running in
the opposite direction, whereby the car
Ill which Graham was riding was de-
rallied and crushed, violently throwing
and tossing Graham and bruising him
so as to cOnfine him to his bed for thir-
teen weeks.
MATRIMONIAL MISTAKES.
In the case of Charlotte B. Elwess
against Richard G. Elwess, tired before
Judge Kerr Tuesday, the court filed
decree granting Mrs. ElwesS a divorce.
Henry r. Foster has concluded that
he has fostered his recreant wife about
long enough, and accordingly brought
suit for divorce against her yesterday.
Laura Foster is her name, and she is
twenty, while he is thirty-two years old.
They were married in this city OIL Oct.
%, 1884, and thereafter lived together as
husband and wife until April 81, 1883,
to which time, Foster claims, he always
had been kind and affectionate hus-
band. He charges his wife with having
committed adultery with John Lowering
on Sept. IA, 1888, in a house boat living
at the levee in this city, and at divers
times thereafter, and at Coverings
room, No. %. Davidson block. He al
leges that she now lives in open adult
cry with Lowering, and is most unfit
person to have the custody and control
of their three-year-old boy. A. R. Foster.
Divorce, and the custody and care of
the child are asked.
NEW SUITS.
Geo. Gooderham and others sue
John l.. Lewis to recover ON promiSSory
for s., 1888.
Harry A. Dorsey sues Peter Kopriva
for specific performance of a contract
on certain real estate given by Koprlva
to Dorsey, in the sale, at public auction,
OF kopreVa'S property and upon which
contract Dorsey had paid 500. Kopriva
now refuses to deliver a deed for the
land agreed to be conveyed in the con-
tract upon which Dorsey paid the 500
as earnest money.
In the case of Alice Cavanaugh
against Fergus and Ellen Fahey and
others. an action to quit title to the west
erly One-half of lot numbered four,
block three, Robert & Randall's addi-
ton, Judge Baxter finds that Ellen
Fahey is seized of an estate in the
premises for and during the life of Cav
anaugh. That Cavanaugh is entitled to
have said real estate sold as prayed for
in her complaint, and Ed S. Bean is
n fnh hot
he is authorized and directed to make
sale of premises.
LEGAL BREVITIES.
Sheriff Bean levied upon a lot of farm
machinery at Mounds View yesterday
morning, in the replevin suit OF Simon
MOrelSEi against Frank MorelSki. The
father sued the son to recover possess
sion of the machinery alleged to have
been unIawfully withheld.
Judge Wilkin was yesterday hearing
the case of The City of st. Paul against
The Chicago, Burlington d Northern
Road, in an action in which the city
claims damages because of illegal en-
crOachment upon the river domain at
the base of Dayton's bluff. The COM
pany is charged with tearing down and
digging away the bluff and dumping the
excavation into the river, thereby
widening and extending its track area
and changing the channel of the river.
In directing the current of the river to
the West side serious damage has
been done to the West side levee. The
suit was instituted two years ago, and
the damage, if any, will be decided by
the court.
SUPREME COURT ROUTINE.
Submitted on briefs: Effie Boardman
VS.. Orion P. Ward; Martin Kraemer
VS.. Rudolph Duesterman.
Argued and submitted: Gilbert Gil
bertson VS.. F. A.Fuller ct al; Thos. w.
Wilson VS.. Geo. E. Hayes ct al.
UriahWilliams ct al, relator, VS.. A. R.
Holman, juttice of the peace, respond
ent; Justice Gilfllan orders that the
proceedings before the justice of the
peace must be set aside.
J. NJ. Parkinson, of Wisconsin, was adj
mitted to pr actice law in this state.
DOINGS AT DULUTH.