The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-17
DAMAGE sU1rs plLlNe UP.
SIX suits, Aggregating $4,000, Filed
in the City Court.

six suits, Aggregating $4,000, Filed
in the City Court.
Six damage suits, aggregating SS5, $50,
rere filed in the city court yesterday by
Gsrrard & Meldrim, representing various
clients.
A E. Smith has sued the Savannah,
F7orida and Western Railway Company for
Si0OOO damages. The declaration sets up
hat on Aug. % the railroad contracted to
cerry the petitioner from Live Oak to
Gainesville, Fla, but the train upon which
Sa was a passenger collided with q
Iraght-car at New Branford, and as
. result of the collision Mr.. Smith had his
IN arm broken between the shoulder and
sibow. his left wrist sprained aud his left
rand lacersted; that he has been disabled,
Il not permanently, probably for a long
rariod of time, and he has been put Co ex-
TTense for medical attendance and for nurs-
mo and has been compelled to incur
eTnense in endeavoring to cure himself of
his injuries, and has been prevented from
attending TO his bu mess, having TO employ
. clerk in his place, and having lost profits
which he would otherwise have earned.
Elizabeth Burns has brought suit against
the Ocean Steamship Company for $4,000
damages for the loss of her husband, An
rnny Burns, who was killed in the hold of
the steamship Dessoug while discharging
her cargo at the Central railroad wharves
last February. The petition sets forth that
the deceased was 'longshoreman 40 years
If ACE. of sound bodily health, and was
earning 81 IS per day at the time OF his
death. While he was being employed in the
hold of the vessel two car wheels and their
axIe were being hauled up by chain con-
structed uusafely, in bad repair, and unfit
for use. and of defective aud improper ma
rqrial AID by the breaking of the chain
the wheels and axle fell upon Burns and
killed him, for which his wife asks $4,000
damages.
F. {. Baldwin & Co. have begun suit
against the Central railroad for SIS, 600 dam
ages for failure to deliver at Chicago and
Cleveland various shipments of oranges
aggregating 3,903 boxes. The petition
alleges that the railroad agreed to transport
from Granada Station, Fla, on the Orange
Belt railway, by a Limited" fast freight
train from Jacksonville, Callahan and
Gainesville via Central with solid cars, and
deliver in Chicago, certain shipments of
oranges, alleged in the bill, in seventy-five
hours and twenty minutes; and to deliver
other oranges at other western points in
the same proportion of time; whereas the
bill alleges the following deliveries: 1872
boxes after nine days, SIT boxes requiring
ten days, 346 boxes in eleven days, 1,00l
boxes after twelve days, 300 boxes taking
fourteen days, while one shipment of 347
boxes required eighteen days, for which ad-
dtonal time required in transit over the
schedule time Baldwin & Co. want 5000
damages.
Fritz Schnibbe has entered suit against
the Central railroad for $1,000 damages.
The petition alleges that on July IS last
Schnibbe was directed by the foreman of
the Central railroad shops, where he was
employed, to carry from the machine shop
to the blacksmith shop an iron frame of
great weight, on an ordinary cotton truck.
The wheel of the truck struck an obstruc-
ton, causing the frame to fall off onto
Schnlbbe's foot, cutting off his great toe
and three small toes. Schnibbe has worked
for the company since November. 1882, and
has always been careful and diligent, and
the injury, which has permanently disabled
him, Is due to no fault on his
part, he claims, and he further
alleges that the three men who were hand
ling the iron frame were not competent and
sufficient for moving the frame; that the
railroad was bound to furnish proper in
struments for work, and the ordinary cot
ton truck was not a safe and proper in
strumentality; and that the danger of the
obstruction in the dark and narrow pas
sage was unknown to Schnibhe, but ought
to have been known to the railroad
company.
W. 0. Ryan and his wife, Elizabeth j.
Ryan, have begun suit against the City and
Suburban Railway Company for $1,000
damages The declaration sets up the fact
that plaintiff b arded the City and
SUBURBAN car at Liberty and West Broad
streets and paid her fare to be carried to
Duffy and West Broad streets, but the car
was defective, and in alighting from the
car the woman's dress caught on a bolt or
projection which had carelessly or negli-
gently been placed or allowed to project
above the floor of the car, she was thrown
from the car to the ground and was bruised
and wounded on her back, breast, head
shoulders and limbs.
A. Einstein's Sons have brought suit
against the Western Union Telegraph COM
pany for $3.50, by reason of an allegation of
TACT that message sent by them from Sa-
Vannah to s. A. Pughsey, Jr., at Tennille,
was so changed, altered and distorted" as
TO damage them. The declaration alleges
that the message as delivered to the tele-
graph company reads as follows:
AUG. 80, 1888.
10 s. A. PughsIev, Jr., Tefnile, Ga.
LOOK for missing letter at Sandersville.
When delivered, the message read:
10 Sid 4. Pughslev, Jr., TenaiIle, Ga
z LOOK Tor message later at Sandersville
Inc error in the telegram Einstein's
Sons detail in the declaration as having
Deen the cause of expenses incurred, lost
lifle' etc., for which they ask $3.50 damages.