The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-26
HARD LUCK STORY
WALTER G. BOOMER RELATES ONE
OF THE FINEST.
SUES RAILROAD FOR $4,000
Wants Damages for a Long List Of
Woes and Misfortunes Which
He Lays at Northern Pa
cities Door.

Walter G. Boomer has sued the North.
ern Pacific Railway company for the
sum of $2133.SO, which he claims in dam
ages, and thereby hangs a dOlorous tale
Of the misfortunes of a man seeking
work, If Boomers complaint. filed in the
district court, tells the truth.
Boomer sues for money paid for a
ticket at Whitehall, Mont, $3.50; for stor-
age charges at Philipsburg. Montana.
$1.O5; railroad fare from Silver Bow to
Butte. rs cents; eight days actual lost
time, at $3.50 per day, $2S: to damages
for loss of job at Philipsburg, $500; for
damages caused in the way Of hardship.
suffering and injury to health from ex-
posture, $1,000; for pain. suffering and hui
initiation caused the plaintiff by reason
of being elected from train of defendant
company at Silver Bow, Mont. as al
legged. $500: for penalty provided by the
statute of the civil code of Montana. Sec
ton 977, the amount of 5000; total.
$2133.S0."
Details of Complaint.
In his complaint Boomer says that the
, railroad company, on the S0th of last
November. in consideration of his having
paid his fare, which he says he did. ''un-
dertook and agreed as a common car
rier. to transport safely convey and de-
liver the plaintiff and his baggage" from
Whitehall to Phiipsburg, Mont. and is
sued him a ticket good from Whitehall
to Fhi!insburg. for $780,
He alleges that he was not allowed an
opportunity to read the conditions on the
ticket nor to learn of the time limit on
it, and that the defendant. contrary to
the section of the law named, placed a
time limit on the ticket that made 1t i'm
hi ~ r. tsvNn iSNyN
while the ticket remained good.
Boomer says that he placed his bag
gage in the care of the railway COM
pany and rode on it's train to Butte, and
that at Butte he was told by it's agents
and employees that he would have to
change cars and stay over in Butte till
\ the next day, which he did; and that
K the next day, when he came to the rail-
road station at 1910 a. m. he was told
by the station agent that the train had
gone at 9:35, instead Of 1926, as the
agent had told him the day previous.
To Stay Over.
He was told then, he alleges, that he
/ would have to stay over to the next day.
and this he did. but was elected from the
train at Silver Bow by the conductor,
who refused his ticket and said it was
not coed any more.
he says, but he had less than a dollar.
and he was compelled to return to Butte.
where, the agent told him nothing cou.d
be done for him in the way of getting
him sportation to Philipsburg.
He goes on to relate that he had been
offered job al Philipsburg and had ac-
cepted it previously to this, and was on
his way to get it.
So, he says, he set out to walk to Phil
ipsburg from Butte. and that after he
started the weather became inclemen,
and snow fell to such an extent as tc
render walking a matter of great hard
ship and suffering"
Boomer alleges that he walked two
days and nights and reached Garrison
There, from physical suffering and hun.
ger and cod. it became impossible fol
him to proceed further, he says. and hi
remained in the station at Garrison fol
three days, with but little food. suffer.
ing greatly from hunger and cold, ant
without sleeping accommodations"
Job Already Taken.
Fare was furnished him after that, h.
! alleges, by the man who had directed hin
to apply for the job. and he bought an
other ticket over the Northern Pacific
am, nnally came to Fhilipsburg; ant
then, to cap the climax, he found another
man had got the job that was to have
q been his.
i But that was not all Boomer says. Thu
railroad did not find out that the tickle
covering it had lapsed, and it did no
eject his baggage.
In view of all the troubles and hare
luck narrated he asks the amount ir
damages named.