The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-12
COURTS TO RESUME WORK.
Suburban and West End Railway
Company Sued for $4,000.

Company Sued for $4,000.
There is some prospect that the dull
ness which has prevailed in the Superior
and City courts for the last several weeks
may be broken this week. The lawyers
have returned from their attendance upon
the Supreme Court and the United States
courts will no longer demand their atten-
ton, hence they may be able to devote
most of their valuable time 70 assisting
the judges in unloading the dockets of the
court.
The City Court will begin the hearing of
civil cases for the February term this
week. Several cases have been assigned
for to-day. The first case on the docket is
that of Simon Schimkowitz, by his next
friend, against the Suburban and West
End Railway. Simon is the young son of
Morris Schimkowitz, who lives at Bryan
and Montgomery streets. The plaintiffs
case, as stated by his petition, is that
I he, in company with several other boys,
was playing in the square near his faith
er's residence when car of the West End
and Suburban Railway, which runs in
that vicinity, ran off the track. He and
the other boys, 1t is claimed, were asked
by the conductor to assist in getting the
car back on the track, being told that
they would be allowed to ride to the mar
ket and back if they did so. They accept
ed this proposition the petition states, and
after the car had been gotten on the track
were told to get on the front platform in
order to hold that end down.
The petitioner claims that the front
platform was badly crowded and that as
result, while riding to the market, he
was showed or pushed off the car rolling
under it and suffering injuries which re-
suited in the loss of a leg as well as other
sufferings. For the damage and injury
thus inflicted he asks $50, OO0 claiming that
the accident was due to the carelessness
and negligence of the company's en-
ployes, who should not have allowed him
to assist in putting the car on the track or
to ride on the crowded platform.
The company in its answer denies most
of the allegations of the plaintiff, espec-
tally that with regard to the matter in
which he came to be on the car and claims
that on the contrary the boy was a tress-
passer on the car and was there against
the express command of the conductor.
There as also a suit for $4,000 against
the Savannah, Thunderbolt and Isle of
Hope Railway in the City Court by Mr.
E. L. Prince, who was run over while
riding his bicycle on the Waters road
and lost an arm, besides suffering other
injuries
binary yesterday in the habeas corpus pro-
ceedlngs brought by William H. Schang
to secure possession of his 1-year-old son,
Roy Schaug. Judge Ferrill, after hear
ing, dismissed the petition and awarded
the custody of the child to the mother
Mrs. Schang has applied for divorce
from her husband, whom she charges with
constant drunkenness and cruel treatment
and yesterday filed application in the Su-
perior Court for temporary alimony..
Judge Paul E. Seabrook of the new At
lantic circuit came down from Pineora
yesterday and spent the day in the city.
Assistant District Attorney w. f.
Leaken returned on yesterday morning
from Augusta, where he had been in at
tendance upon the United States Court
Mr.. Leaken reports that the river was
so high that it prevented the attendance
of witnesses and interfered with the trans
action of legal business. He returns 10
Augusta on Wednesday.