Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-12-24
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company for $4,000.
Adelaide Nolan rode down Main street on
a cable train on the afternoon Of October
Fifth street lire. She says that as she
started to alight the train began to move
backwards and that she was thrown VIC
being broken in the fall. Her back was
hurt. she says. She fixes her injuries in
her suit against the cable company ut a
value of So. 200.
Rachel Serves was occupying the front
seat of a cable car as it sped down the
Ninth street hill from Grand avenue. The
but she kept on going, with the result that
several teeth were knocked loose when she
landed on the tracks and she was other
wise injured. The accident occurred on
October -. She asks s. 900 damages Of the
company.
Maggie Tyler. a domestic in the home CT
David t Beals. president of the Union
National bank. 2566 independence avenue
climbed up on a stepladder on the after
noon OF June to dust off a picture in the
weight and she fell to the floor. fractur-
ing her arm. Yesterday she sued Mr..
Beals and his wife, Arista. for s., 40 dam
ages.
Snow and ice accumulated on the side
walks along East Thirteenth street in Feb
ruary of the present year and Mrs. Eliz-
abeth Shreve, wife of w. Fl. Shreve. of
1905 Grove street. while passing the corner
of Thirteenth and McGee streets, on the
afternoon of February, 3. slipped and fell
~ great lOICt u bIe pavement. litF
right wrist was fractured and she was in
Jured internally. Yesterday she sued the
city for damages TO the extent of 81. 800.
Louis Gordon drove down the alley be-
tween Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets
on the afternoon OF October .. At Eigh-
tenth street his vehicle hit an obstruction
failing into a sewer trench. He was thrown
from his cart, teeth We're knocked loose,
MS head bruised. his spine injured and it
was fully ten minutes before he recovered
consciousness, He thinks the citv tuoS fo
blame. He asks 5000.
William Henderson, IA years old. was an
ing station. On October ) he was working
near an unprotected flywheei when he
slipped and fell with his right arm across
the wheel. Before he could arise his right
arm was severed from his body. He has
sued the city. through his next best friend.
the bridge on Southwest boulevard and was
hurt internally. He has made the city a
defendant in a suit for $4,000 damages.
Arthur {. Jones was an employe of the
Kansas City Ice and Cold Storage Com
pany. on June 4. 1855. He was moving a
f i!iubtb Of an ice II The eoTpany, factory at at
slipped and fell. He clutched a small rail-
road track above his head to break the
ice passed along. All of the fingers of his
right hand, he says, We're crushed. He
asks $500 damages.
John w. Brockman bought tickets for
himself and wife over the Atchison. To-
peka & Santa Fe railroad to Colorado
Springs. but the clerk made a mistake in
issuing the tickets, and Brockman and his
wife were elected from the train at Hol-
liday; Kas., by the conductor. Yesterday
Brockman brought suit against the COM
pany for 1899 damages. His wife also
sued for a similar sum.
A driver for the Central Coal and Coke
Company, after delivering a ton of coal
opposite the Brooklyn Avenue Gable Com
pany's power house. forgot to cover the
coal hole in the sidewalk. Ola Jackson
happened along and fell through the OPEN
Ing, She accepted $500 from the company
as damages. but suit was filed by her yes
that she shall accept a judgment for 5000.
The company had this step taken to avoid
being harassed by litigation in case she
should become dissatisfied with the terms
of settlement.
They have defective sidewalks in Inde-
pendence. just as they have in Kansas
City. Eliza Carter yesterday sued the
county seat town for $1,000 damages because
of a fall she received on a bad Sidewalk
on December 2.