The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-14
TWO DAMAGE SUITS
One Against the Street Car
Company.
OTHER AGAINST THE CITY
w. II. HICKS SUES CAR COMPANY
FOR $4,000.
MRS. JONES SUES THE CITY FOR $4,000
Complaints in Both Cases Were Filed Yester-
day. Hicks Was Put Off the Car. Mrs.
lones Hurt by an Iron Pipe Left.
Exposed on the Street.

Two damage suits We're instituted yes
terday in Wake Superior court:
One for $1,000 against the Raleigh
Electric Company by w. II. Hicks, for
putting him off a street car.
One for $4,000 against the city of
Raleigh, for injuries caused to Mrs.
Maggie Jones by an iron pipe left ex-
posed by the street force on Hargett
street.
Complaints in both cases were filed
yesterday with the clerk of the Superior
court here, setting forth the grounds
on which the claims for damages are
based:
Hicks sets forth that on the night of
October 2Jth, 1899, he, in company with
two ladies. boarded one of the defend
ants cars at a point on Fayetteville
street as a passenger. intending to go
to a point on the Hillsboro street line;
chat on boarding the car he paid the
full fare for passage over the car lines
to the point to which he intended to
go, both for himself and his compan-
ions, and informed the conductor that
they desired TO go TO point ON Hills
boro street He demanded and received
from the conductor transfers, showing
that they had paid their fares and were
entitled To be transferred to the Hills
boro street line At the point of trans
fer they boarded the Hillsboro street car
and rendered the transfers, which the
conductor rudely refused to accept and
in loud voice threatened to put plain
tiff off the ear. Plaintiff declined TO
pay again, Whereupon he was violently
seized by the conductor and while the
car was still in motion thrown off, pros
trate beside the track. and thereby Sc
siously wounded, insulted and Inundated
greatly injured in person, and in his
social and business relations and stand
ing
That on account of these insults and
injuries the plaintiff has been damaged
III the sum Of $4,000.
In the Jones suit against TIE eitNA he
complaint sets out:
l. That the city Of Raleigh being a
municipal corporation is bound to Keep
its streets and sidewalks in proper re-
pair and safe condition.
, That some time prior to September
IL, 1899, the city, preparing to pave
near the Tabernacle Baptist church,
corner of Person and Hargett streets.
dug down and excavated certain por-
tion Of the sidewalks.
g. That in Doing SO the city careless
" and negligently left exposed and ex-
tended across the sidewalks, abour
three inches above the ground, an iron
pipe, very dangerous to pedestrians; NO
light or signal was placed at or meas
this obstruction to warn persons of its
existence.
H. That on the evening of September
II, 1899, Maggie Jones, wife of w. J..
Jones' was passing along this street,
when, without any fault of her own,
aer foot was caught under the pipe
and she was violently thrown to the
ground, wrenching and bruising her leg
and foot and shocking her system; land
on account of the aforesaid careless
ness and negligence Of the said defend
ant city and the injury sustained on
account thereof, she has sustained great
and permanent bodily harm, has auf-
fered great mental agony, has been rem
dered unable to perform her usual avo-
cation, has been put to great expense
and cost, and has been greatly dam
aged"
5. That on account of this careless
ness and negligence the plaintiff Mag
gle Jones has been damaged in the sum
of $4,000.