Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-27
LAST WEEK OF SERVICE.
MORE THAN 100 SUITS FILED DUR
ING THE WEEK
C. L. Snyder Wants $4,000 From DR.
1. NJ Ridee-Eight Suits Against
the City and Ten Against
Metropolitan Railway.


The week just closed was the last week
of service in the circuit court and all cases
wherein all parties had not been notified by
L o'clock last night will go over to the
next term of court.
During the week a few over 100 suits
were fled, of which nearly one-third were
damage suits.
C. L. Snyder brought suit against DR..
1. II. Ridge for $4,000 damages for failing
TO carry out an agreement with the plain
tiff, who was the patentee OF certain curved
rails and also hydraulic grips for use on
cable roads The plaintiff alleges that DR..
Ridge was 10 furnish certain funds where
with TO put the devices on the market.
buL has not done So The defendant was
TO have a half interest in the devices and
was to get 81 a day from DR.. Ridge, ac-
cCrding TO the allegations of the petition,
all of which the defendant is alleged to
havo failed TO do
Against the City.
Eight suits were filed against the city.
Rggregating $4,000. as follows:
q. W. Noiand, $4,000 for personal in
3uries received by falling through side
walk on Lydia avenue between Seven
teenth and Eighteenth.
Desdemona Gotten, 50, 900 for injuries re-
Woodland avenue between Seventeenth
and Eighteenth.
Elizabeth Butler. $500 for personal in
5uries; Z. L. Blackwell. 5000 for personal
injuries received by falling through Il side
walk at 1914 Madison avenue; Cecilia
Chrzanowski. for s. 900 for falling through
a sidewalk at 1928 West Ninth street; E. II.
AIetZner. against the city and the Boyd
Paving Company for $4,000 for injuries
received in falling into sewer ditch near
Fifteenth and Askew, November 2S, last;
J. Mitchell. for $10,120. for falling from the
bridge AT Troost avenue and Twentieth
street; Emma Monteen, 5000, for injuries
received by falling through sidewalk on
Eleventh street between Harrison and
Troost; Percy Crowl, 1900 personal in
5uries; Eugenia Fox, $500. personal in1ur-
ies.
Against the Metropolitan.
Ten suits were filed against the Metropol-
1tan Street Railway Company, nggregating
j. w. MCMILLAN. S5.OOO for injuries re-.
ceived September q last. by falling from a.
car at Main street between Ninth and
Tenth; G. W. Smith. by WI. Hollis. Si2-
900. for falling from a car on Broadway
near Ninth street; William Fiscus, 5000.
for injuries received at Ninth and Broad
way by falling from a car October q;
Elizabeth E. Morris, 5000. for injuries re-
ceived by falling from car at Fifteenth
and Olive, October s; c. T. Sargent, $4,000
for injuries received by falling from a car
at Twelfth and Main streets october 10,
1892 Warren Burkhart, 1900 for injuries
received at Nineteenth and Genesee streets
last summer; Z. Lowenstein, $4,000 for in
3uries received by falling from a car at
Ninth and Main streets October is last; ].
H Tinker, 5000 for injuries received May
30. at Twenty-ninth and Grand; Andrew
Anderson. 5000 for injuries by being hit
by conductor with a bellpunch at Twelfth
and Wyoming asst September.
Other Damage suits.
Other damage suits were filed as follows:
Mary Leon against ]. B. Chic, $1,000. for
falling down flight of stairs in building
owned by the defendant; Getty Beroizheim-
er against D. C.. List and Kansas City, per-
sonai injuries. NJ Delougherty against the
Union Terminal Railway; William Bower
against D. Faldber; Lucy Weldon against
the Hannibal &c st. Joseph Railway Com
pany, 5000, for the death OF her son, hoy
Miller December 10; Mary ]. Walls against
Cora Won Quasi, S, 800, for alleged profess
sional unszillfulness; Anna Cruth against
\ r. D. Schultz, John Hoge and q. A. Beck,
for $500 damages, for falling through a
scuttle hole at No. is East Fourth street;
Michael Quinn against John and Mary
Lynch: Sun Insurance Company against
Ferd Helm and the Missouri Pacific Rail
way Company; A. p. Thorson against w.
IL hlnOeriln, So,f9U, lIlt Nhluc VI PtOP-
erty traded which Kimberlin claimed to
own: r. c. White Commission Company VS..
the Chicago Milwaukee & st. Paul Rail-
way Company for $780, the value of forty
six head of cattle which the company
failed to deliver to him; Mrs. NJ. G. Hunt
against ]. NJ. Powell, w. N. Moore and
Swcfford Bros, 81 1000 for injuries received
in an alteration over deeds to property;
i. L. Stoner against J. L. Abernathy and
others. for $1,000, for retention OF property
assigned by H. o. Palen: F. d. Desendori
against the NJ. Rumely Company, for $l,lO9
for failing to repair an old threshing ma
chine: a. x. Wolf against DIR. L. @. Van
Scoyoc for $1,000. for alleged professional
neglect which resulted in the death OF
the plaintiffs wife: Adolphus Edwards
against the Brush Creek Coal and Mining
Company. for $50 90. for injuries received
December Il last; Nancy Davis against
the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company. foi
SsO00 for the death of her husband. Solo
mon Davis: Charles and Myrtle f1sher, by
Kate Fisher. against Hollinger K Mitchell
for 5000 for the death of w. q. Fisher
March 2S at the new building at 5OI-5G
Delaware street; D. Z. Stoner against th'
Brown Book and Stationery Company. FOL
retention of property; +. II. bradbury
agsinst the Suburban Belt line, TO recover
S36g alleged to be due him for work per
formed. George r Farrah, by his mex
friend. w w. Farrah, against II. E. Bark
er for 81 500. alleging that monument be
longing to Barker fell on him while n
was watching It: II. Z. Moss against th'
Reliable Incubator and Brooder Company
10 recover S26l5 because an incubator
bought from the campany failed to pro
duce results as represented.
Divorce Suits.
Fifteen divorce suits were filed. Gather
tne King alleged that her husbands chill
dreu by a former marriage were allowed tc
spit on her. throw hot water over her ant
otbarv;fse abuse her, in which the defend
mt himself Joined.
Other suits We're:
s b. Anderson against Bessie NJ Ander