The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-27
IN THE DISTRICT COURT
Mrs. Mary J. Williams Sues the
City for $4,000.
HER HUSBAND RUN OVER
BY the Hook and Ladder Team OF the
Fire Departn1ent-Daniel Shields
Takes Hand in the Burke
and Balaklava Case.

A suit for $4,000 damages was
brought in the district court yesterday
against the city of Butte by Mrs. Mary
J. Williams, widow of Thomas S. Will
liams. who died as the result of inju-
ries he sustained by being run upon by
the hook and ladder team of the city
fire department. In her complaint Mrs.
Williams says her husband died on Oc-
tober rs, 1893, and left surviving him,
besides herself. three minor children,
and on November % the plaintiff was
appointed administrators of the estate.
On September 20 a member of the fire
department. having in charge and un-
to the hook and ladder truck, and act
ing under the directions and command
of the chief of the fire department, was
making a practice run west on Granite
street, between the alley east of Har-
rington's grocery store and Wyoming
street, and was driving the team of
horses at their full speed and in care
less, negligent and reckless manner.
The deceased, the husband of the plain
tiff, was driving west on Granite street
and was sitting in a light one-horse
wagon. In trying to escape being run
over by the hook and ladder team. he
drove too near the corner of Granite
and Wyoming streets to point direct
ly in front of what is known as the
Dorothy block and almost on the side
walk Although he was IN position
as far as possible from the center of
the street, the fire truck ran into his
wagon and threw him violently to the
ground, dislocating and fracturing his
hip joint and inficting internal injuries
from which he died, to the plaintiff $
damage in the sum Of $25.000 for which
amount judgment is asked.
Daniel Shields, creditor of the James
Tuohy estate. has taken a hand IN the
controversy over the lease on the Burke
and Balakava mines which Judge
Lindsay ordered to be given to G. j.
McSherry, D. J. Ryan and John Britt
by the executor, and yesterday he pc
titioned the court to consider the eX-
ecutor's request for permission to lease
the property to other parties who had
offered to pay the estate a bonus of
81 900 and better terms in other respects
than We're offered by McSherry and his
partners. Shields says in his petition
that he has "a claim against the estate
for 5000, which has been allowed by the
court and also by the executor and that
no part of it has been paid, as there
are no funds in the estate. Other
claims, aggrega ting $4,000, have been
allowed, none of which have been paid
The executor has never acted on the
order of the court to execute d lease
to McSherry, Ryan and Britt, and
Shields saws it would be to the great
benefit of the creditors if the execu-
tors last petition would be considered
and allowed by the court and the court
is asked to set day for its hearing.
An order to show cause in an actor
of Catherine Burton against Sheriff
| Regain to enjoin him from enforcing
an order of court to dispossess her OF
| some property on the Hesperus lode
came up for hearing before Judge Clan
cy yesterday morning. The attorney
! for the parties who secured the judg.
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