The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-20

against w. T. X. Smith for 5000 damages
The suit grows out of an alleged SANDER
| Gus expression used by the defendant to
| the PLAINTIFF on Oct. 9, the statement be-
ing characterized as entirely false and
malicious.
Mr.. J. ]. Wilder, trading under the style
| OF Wilder & Co.. through his attorneys
| Messrs. Charlton, Mackan & Anderson,
| filed suit in the city court against the
| Ocean Steamship Company for $4,000 dam
ages. The plaintiff alleges that on July 3
! he delivered 400 bales of cotton, Of the
value Of $4,000, to the defendant company
| to be transported on the steamship Kan
| sas City to New York, and there to be
turned over to the Anchor line Of steamers
to be transported from New York to Ma
| pies. The cotton, it is stated, was lost
| and though a demand has been made for
| 1t, the Ocean Steamship Company, 1t is
1 said has refused either to deliver up the
cotton or to pay for it. In addition to the
loss of the cotton, the petitioner states
that he was put to an expense of $275 for
! attorneys fees and $i1.40 for cablegramS,
for which he also asks judgment against
the ocean Steamship Company
Two more suits have grown out Of the
| May week accident at Anderson, on the
Florida Central and Peninsular railroad,
those of Bertha Nathan and her son, Sid
| ney. She was passenger on the tram,
| and says she was badly in
jured by the shock and jar.
| She had two children with her. and
one of them, Norman. the youngest, was
| killed, the body not being recovered until
| the next day. For the mental and phys
! ical pain and suffering which she had to
undergo she asks judgment against the
| railroad for 5000. Her son, Sidney, who
was also injured in the wreck sues by
avf frfo
| damages. The plaintiffs are represented
by Messrs Garrard, Meldrim and New
| man.
j. f. Brooks, as administrator of the
estate of l.. H. Fahrenbach, brought suit
through his attorneys, Garrard, Meldrim
| & Newman, against Walter Meyler for
$563.75 The allegations are that fifty
| acres belonging to the estate at Hemp
| stead, were sold at public cutlery, and
bought by Meyler, on bid of $i5 an acre,
or 81, $50 Meyler, he says, refused to
take the property and it had to be sold
| again at Meylers risk. The second time
it brought $1.75O He sues Meyler to re-
cover the difference in price and the
costs of the two sales.
The Savannah and Isle of Hope Rail-
way Company brought suit against the
Electric Railway Company, and its re-
ceivers, to recover from it rental for les
| line, and certain damages alleged to be
due, amounting to $712S.9O. OF this
amount, 81. 12S. 80 Is claimed to be due for
rental to the time at which the three-year
lease would have expired had it been kept
up; s., 600 is claimed to be due as damages
/ for violation of the covenant or agreement
as TO the lease, and as to keeping it in re-
pair, and $1,000 is claimed to be due as loss
I of rental since the termination OF the con-
! tract, by reason Of it's condition, making
3 Of criif al
the plaintiffs by Messrs. U. H. McLaws
and r. r. Richards.
Through his attorney, Mr.. J. G. SEES
SONS, Alfred Robinson filed a suit for
$1,000 damages against the Central OF
| Georgia Railway Company. He was en-
| ployed in the shops of the road as a lab
| orer at 81 a day. and on Feb. II, 1896,
while working on heavy wheel, had his
feet badly mashed, and other parts OF his
body severely bruised and he thinks the
injuries sustained is worth that amount
of money
Through Messrs Nicolson & Nc
| Kethan, r. G. Norton, Jr., filed a suit for
$500 against the New York and Chicago
Lloyds' Fire Insurance companies the
amount of a policy on household and
kitchen furniture, lost by fire, on which
the company's agent first offered a com
promise, but which he says they have
since refused to pay altogether.
The suwanee Canal Company through
its attorneys Messrs. Barrow g. Osborne,
filed salt against the Western Union Tele-
graph Company for $500 the loss alleged
to have been sustained by reason OF the
failure of the company to promptly trans
nit telegram from Folkston, Ca, to
Albany, N. Y.
II
of A. B. Coffman for $500 damages against
Selig Mende The allegations are that
the defendant, while driving in a buggy
on Bull street on Aug. 26, negligently ran
into tho plaintiff, who was on a bicycle,
throwing him to the ground, damaging his
bicycle and causing him to lose six days
from business by reason of injuries to him.
self. He says the whole damages sustain
ed are worth fully $500.
Mrs. Nancy NJ. Hankinson, through her
attorney, w E. Morrison, Esq, filed suit
against the Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company for SlO5.75, a balance claimed to
be due on the life insurance Of her hus-
band, who died recently. He was we'll
known as Cap" Hankinson, and, as APP
peared at the time died from the effects
Of an overdose of morphine. The COM
pany refuses to pay the loss
In the court of ordinary yesterday
Charles r. Bordley filed a petition for let
ters OF administration on the estate of
Hortense I. Wright.
The will OF Mars Ward was filed in
court, and will be probated within a few
days.
In the superior court yesterday Messrs.
w. d. Jones, p. M. Christian and T. P.
Price were granted an Incorporation, as
The Jones Pharmacy, for twenty years.
HIS FORTUNE MAY VANISH.
Two Big Attachment Suits Against