The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-22
CASES IN THE COURT.
O'HanIen's oIO, 600 Suit Against the Mon
tana Central on Trial.

O'HanIon's 1900 Suit Against the Mon
tasa Central on Trial.
Great Falls. March 2l.-In the dis
trcit court this morning the suit OF
James T. Stanford vs.. A. J. Cowell
was dismissed without prejudice. The
plaintiff appeared in II as receiver for
the Northwestern National bank.
The e suit for trial was that OF
Ruth cook against the sheriff. c. c.
Proctor. The action is one which re-
suits from the suit instituted by Ben
jamin & Peltzer, dentists, against Syl-
via Bryant. to collect an account. They
attached some furniture claimed by
Ruth Cook and the sheriff took 1t under
an indemnifying bone from the plain
tiffs. Ruth sued the sheriff to recover
possession OF the furniture, and on the
witness stand this afternoon was able
TO establish a legal purchase from Syl-
via Bryant from both documentary and
oral testimony. The jury was out only
a short time and brought in a verdict
for the plaintiff.
The $40, 900 damage suit OF Patrick
O'Hanlon against the Montana Gen.
trail, was next started. The plaintiff
was employed by the railway as one or
its bridge crew, and on the 18th OF
November. 1896. Vas on the boarding
car. which was run into near Beulah.
and he. among others. was injured. The
crew had been ordered to another place
on the line and left Belt In the after
noon. their boarding car being attached
to the Neihart train between a num-
Der of flats and coal cars and an engine
which was drawing two passenger
coaches and assisting the regular en-
CINE in pulling up the Belt hill, making
practically one long train. In some
manner the coupling broke il going
down Belt Hill, and just at Beulah the
engine and the two coaches caught up
"a H. G-.s at 80 Tho tratn ~
ran.into it with considerable force.
Fortunately no one was killed. but sew
eraI were injured, and among them
was O'Hanlon. He was taken to the
hospital and remained there for four
months. He claims that he was stove
in on the breast and has trouble with
his left also, the injuries being
sufficient 20 keep him from hard man.
ual labor. by which he has always
earned his living. He also claimed on
the witness stand this afternoon that
he was unable to get any physicians to
testify as TO his physical condition as
those he had approached had refused
either by stating that they did not care
to testify against the railway company
or by charging him such high fees that
he vas unable to pay them. After the
testimony for the plaintiff was all In
the attorney for the defendant. A. j
Shores, moved for a non-suit on the
ETouI1u lndl Ho HtSiiStAItt oh Nv Boi
of the defendant had been proven. The
jury was dismissed for the day and sht
motion will be decided Tomorrow
morning.
Charles Crawford Oswald of Great
Falls. a subject of England. this after
noon declared his intention of becom'
ing a United States citizen n tool
out the necessary papers.
Blanche Shelton this afternoon insti
tuted suit against Thomas Clary, al
sheriff of Choteau county, John Harris
and c. J. Mcnamara, his official bonds
men. and w. l.. Perkins a. Co., a.
plaintiff in a former action from which
the present one arises. The action Il
on conversion and the complaint re
cites tha the sheriff unlawfully tool
possession of a lot of her property un
der an action brought against plaintiff
and her husband, f. G. Shelton, by w
L. Perkins & Co. Plaintiff asks 70
81 $50 damages.