The age-herald., 1899-03-14
FIVE DAMAGE SUITS
 FILED IN THE COURTS
Making q Total of S4e, ,OOO-.More Suits Ell ed in Jefferson Than Any County
 in tho South.

Perhaps more damage suits are filed in the courts of Jefferson county than in any other county in the south, which is counted for by the many big industries in the district, which employ many men in their various departments. There is scarce ly a day passes that one or more suits are not filed against some of the corporations, who employ regular attorneys to represent their interests.
 In the circuit court yesterday five suits were filed aggregating a total of s42,5Oo, which is asked by plaintiffs for alleged damages.
 Mary E. York, administrative of Joseph N. York, deceased, through her attorneys, James J. Banks and Lee J. Marx, filed suit against the Louisville and Nashville Railroad company for 900 damages. York was a yard foreman in the Louisville and Nashville yards, and was caught between two cars on the night of January 13 last and crushed to death, which the plaintiff alleges was due to the carelessness of the defendant company through it's employees in giving improper signals.
 Thomas c. Harris filed suit for $1000O each against the Keystone Bridge com pany and the Carnegie Steel company, Limited, for injuries alleged to have been sustained by falling from a scaffold at the new steel mill at Ensley, in which the de- fendant companies were engaged in con- structing certain work under contract. The plaintiff alleges that he fell forty feet, and was so badly injured that he is unable to use his legs
 O. z. Smith filed suit for $2O0O damages against the Birmingham Railway and Elec- tric company for injuries alleged to have been sustained on February s last by be- ing thrown to the ground at the corner of First avenue and Nineteenth street by the sudden starting of a car from which he was alighting.
 Lila Stoutenborough, through her attor- ney, Sam Will Johns, filed suit against J. H. Belue for $500 damages for the alleged wrongful taking of a diamond ring.
 Back from Walker County
 Judge A. A. Coleman and Solicitor Charles Ferguson have returned from Walker county, where they held two weeks term of the circuit court This was Judge Coleman's first term in Walker since his election to the circuit judgeship and he is said to have made a most favor able impression upon the lawyers and the court officials with whom he came in con- tact.
 The Bessemer division of the circuit court of this county meets on Monday, March Nth, and until that time Judge Coleman will take well earned rest
 Criminal Court
 In the criminal court yesterday afternoon two cases in the criminal docket were disposed of in short order. Dick Phillips, charged with having killed a negro in a Southside saloon about eight years ago, pleaded guilty to the charge of man. slaughter in the second degree and was sentenced to Imprisonment in the peniten- tiary for two years and a half.
 James Menifield, who was indicted on the charge of murder in connection with the death of James Bowman, who was found dead in a cell in the city prison at Bes- semer, pleaded guilty to the charge of murder in the second degree and was sen- tenced to ten years in the penitentiary.
 The case of Henrietta Mcftea, colored, charged with having caused the death cf her 13-year-old daughter by beating her over the back with a poker, passed until Thursday.