Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-12-24
COSTLY SUDDEN JERKS
SUITS For $4,000 AGAINST THE
METROPOLITAN.
Eleven Damage Cases, Each of Which
Charges the Same Old Sudden
Jerk With Causing All
the Mischief.

Sudden jerks will cost the Metropolitan
Street Railway Company 1910 o if the DAM
age suits begun in the circuit court this
week are al successful. Eleven suits have
been filed against the railway Company
within five days. and the petition in every
one declares thai it was the sudden jerk
that did il. Each time the car either start
ed or stopped with 4 sudden jerk that
threw the plaintiff violently forward or
downward and inflicted upon him or her
injuries from which he or she suffered and
still continues to suffer the greatest bodily
and mental pain and anguish.
In no case is the phrase sudden jerk
omitted. but occasionally the adjective
sudden is relieved from duty by the adj
verb suddenly"
Mrs. Addie Ward says she was trying to
board n Metropolitan car at Sixth and Wal
nut, when 1t started with a sudden and
violent jerk She sues for $500 and her
husband. NJ. D. Ward. asks 5000 for the
loss of her services.
Emma seachrist was in the act of alisht-
ing at Ninth and Walnut streets, April 70.
1893, when the treacheroUs sudden jerk
got in its work. She asks $3.50.
Fanny Kelley was enjoying n ride on an
Eighteenth street car November %. 1898.
and was congratulating herself on the good
Sine the car was making when suddenly it
came TO a sudden stop with q sudden jerk
at the Junction. Her petition is for $1,000.
Michael w. Draney experienced the ter
rors of the sudden jerk" November -,
when a tight Slot at Twelfth and Hickory
streets threw him with great violence
against the dashboard OF the grip car. HIS
suit is for 5000.
Matte E. Roberts was just stepping from
the rear platform of a car at Fifteenth and
Forest. when the terrible sudden Jerk
c~ame-$i0.Coo damages asked.
A sudden jerk wreaked its spite upon
Emma Hampton at Twelfth and Central
$4,000.
| jerk played on Ben w. Small, a conductor
on the Fifteenth street line four years
ago. He is just now recovering enough
was crossing the Belt line tracks when the
| grip struck a projecting end of one of the
Belt lines steel rails-"sudden jerk"
jerome B. Campbell was thrown from the
car at Grand avenue and Eighth street
Sudden ~jerk"-$5.OoO.
Cynthia f. Roberts was getting off at
Twelfth and Bellefontaine. The suddenesS
kind of a sudden jerk suddenly jerked the
Tessie Lynch's experience was an ag-
ridins c6ilided with another car at Eigh-
tenth and Troost. December 10. 1895. threw
her down violently, and piled all the pas
sengers upon her in a promiscuous, sprawl
ing heap. She sues for s5.co.
If the car could have stopped sooner
Minnie Fulton's suit for $500 damages
would not have been brought. She was on
the Elevated, and it ran away through the
tunnel. stopping with the same old sudden
jerk near the Union depot.
Ieber C. Baird was standing on the
footboard of a car at Eighth and Camp
bell when a car going in an opposite di.
rection knocked him off. His suit is for
5000.
Mary Kirsher didn't trust herself to a
car. but was driving in a buggy at Ninth
and Baltimore. when the car, angry, it may
| he haF1rrSa of ha- 1lnl- nr rnnal.rHn rnIfil
ed with the buggy and threw her out. Now
she wants 5000 damages.