The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-06-01
In Common Pleas Court.

George w. Potter. the Dunmore
butcher is again plaintiff in a dam
age suit against the Scranton Railway
company. The case was called yester-
day before Judge Kelly in court room
No. 2. Mr. Potter and his son. Charles.
are claiming $500 for the loss of one
horse, the injury of another and the
demolishine of wagon, which re-
suited from a collision occurring on
North Washington avenue, Oct. 10,
1890
The son. Charles. who was driving
the wagon. says that before he at
tempted to cross the tracks he stopped.
looked and listened and discovered no
car approaching Before he got over
a car coming down the steep hill de-
scending from Grandview avenue.
dashed down upon him. one of the
horses was thrown under the fender
and dragged a considerable distance.
IT was so badly injured ii had to be
shot. The other was cut and bruised
and $40 was expended in doctoring 1t.
The damage to the wagon necesstated
$50 worth of repairs.
The company claims that Potter did
not stop, but drove directly in front of
applied the brake. reversed the power.
sanded the track. and in addition to all
these things that motorman. as wit
nesses. usually tell of having done to
avert an accident. this particular mo-
torman. Frank Raymond. gave IA
whistle. Mr.. Raymond whistled for
the court and jury. to prove that his
whistle is no little two-penny affair.
RI ia, hnt ~ p.i iS
ing his whistle but small compliment.
Mr.. Raymond knocked a start out of
every one in the court room with his
whistle.
The company also put on witnesses
to show that there is an unobstructed
view of the track for three hundred
feet from the point where Potter at
tempted to cross the track and that
the approach of an inbound car would
be visible from any point for dis.
tance of 400 feet along the Cross-lots
route pursued by Potter's team in APP
preaching the track.
The evidence was all in at adjourn
ing time. IIX-Judge f.. y. Willard and
Hon. G. p. O'Malley. of Willard. War
rem & Knapp. represent the company.
The plaintiffs attorneys are j. Fl.
son and j. W. Browning.
The elder Potter was seated at the
plaintiffs table where. in 1893. he sat
for a week trying to make out Il SIG, 1000
suit against the company for personal
injuries. He was driving around Dun
more corners one day with team one
OF which was Il young and spirited
horse. Some trolley company employees
TAFT,
of a new-fanRled faring red ladder
and platform arrangement that was
being used for the first time. AS Pot
ter approached he called to the men to
cease their hammering but they paid
no heed TO him. The noise made by
the vibrating wires, together with the
strange looking apparatus planted in
the roadway, frightened Potter's young
horse and runaway resulted. Potter
was thrown out with such violence
that his left leg was broken in three
places below the ankle his upper jaw
was broken off SO completely that
when he lowered the under jaw the up
per jaw also lowered; his left cheek
bone and his temple were crushed in
leaving permanent deep impression,
and right in the center of his forehead
VAS left hole, caused by a sharp
pointed stone, that will easily hide the
half of a mans thumb. Besides all
this he sustained internal injuries re.
sultng in permanent arrangements.
He failed to secure a verdict, both in
the local and appellate courts. and
fairly impoverished himself seeking to
recover what he believed was his right.
The jury in the case of II. II. Seidel,
Ell al. against $. +. Shelly, Franklin
Howell and Alfred Harvey, returned
its findings at the opening of court