The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-21
IN THE DISTRICT COURT
A Suit for $4,000 Damages
Against the Big Hole Company
FOR PERSONAL INJURIES
Charles Smith Was Seriously Used Up
in Fall of the Embankment-W
B. Meyers Sues Constable
Volker for 81 900.

Charles Smith. a former employee at
the Montana Power company's dam on
the Big Hole. yesterday brought a suit
for $4,000 damages on account of per-
sonal injuries, against Frederick T.
Sterling, receiver of the company, and
Winters, Parsons & Boomer, the con-
tractors. In his complaint Smith says
that on the 5th of last month he was
employed by the defendants as a COM
mon laborer on the DAM and it was
his duty to work where directed 1t is
alleged that the plaintiff is a man of
less than ordinary intelligence and has
been accustomed to obey the orders of
those under whom he works and rely
on their judgment that the place in
which he worked was safe. and this
was we'll known to the defendants. on
the date named the defendants were
engaged in loading earth and stone on
cars from an embankment near the
| dam, the cars being close to the en-
bankment About 5 O'Clock the fore
man ordered the plaintiff to go between
the cars and the embankment to per-
form certain work and to hurry up,
not giving him time to find out or to
| know of the dangerous condition of the
| embankment. The plaintiff obeyed the
| order of his master, believing that the
| master would not order him into an
unsafe and dangerous place to work,
and relied on his master keeping watch
| of said embankment and protecting
plaintiff from an unusual and danger
| Gus place to work. The place was dan
gerous and the defendant knew it. and
while the plaintiff was at work a large
| mass of gravel. dirt and stones fell up
on him. Three of his ribs We're broken
and his right arm and left leg We're
| greatly bruised and have ever since
| been stiff and sore. A large cash was
also cut in his head and he sustained
| internal injuries by which he has been
| prevented from performing manual Ia
| Dor and prevented from earning money
| at his occupation as a common laborer,
to his damage in the sum of $4,000.
In a damage suit of w 3. Meyers
! against Constable Joseph Nolker and
his bondsmen. James H. Lynch and
| Edward Lynch, an amended complaint
was filed in court yesterday by the
plaintiff He wants $1,000 as damages
because of an attachment levied on his
| saloon on the Sd of last January. Mey-
| ers says that during his temporary alb
| sence from his place Of business the
! constable took possession of it and lev
| led the attachment on his stock OF
| SDOuS. instead Oh TellltNlllS Tic dLlCiti-
ed goods. he kept possession of the
building until January IA, and then
turned the building over to other par
ties. although the plaintiff had lease
on it until the 1st of April. The result
was that his business, which had been
| a profitable one, was ruined and he
suffered damages in the sum of $1,000.
An action for divorce was yester-
day commenced by Merida Thibodeau
against Gervais Thibodeau on the
ground of deserton. She Debates that
they were married in Butte on January
90 1887. and lived together until July
1896, when the defendant. without cause
deserted her She asks for the custody
of their four children.
An action for $4,000 damages wa!
brought in the district court yesterday
against Con Hayes, proprietor of Greg
son Springs, by a young woman named
Nellie Nallen. She alleges that HI
struck her and otherwise roughly han
died her in the Office of his hotel and il
the presence of numerous persons. Mr.
Hayes. when he heard that the suit nat
been brought. stated that the woman
| had started to raise a disturbance in tn
hotel and he put her out but deniet
that he struck her or abused her