The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-08
MANY SUITS FILED
URE EXTENSIVELY IN DIS
TRTCT CoURT CALENDAR
CITY A DEFENDANT IN SOME
Suits Arising From Accidents sus-
tanned ON Railroads and Streets
Constitute Majority of Those
Entered Yesterday.

Claims for dana ges figured extensively
in a long list of suits filed with the clerk
of the district court yesterday. In a
number of them the city was named as
a. defendant, the amounts demanded
ranging from $500 to 5000.
In suing the Chicago Milwaukee &
st. Paul Railway company, James Muir
ran thinks he is afflicted to an extent
that will give him little trouble in secur-
ing the amount he asks for. ,36D Last
March he was employed as a section hand
by the company, his principal duties Ee-
ing the removal of snow and ice from
the switches and tracks In the company's'
yard. One morning he was run down
by q wild freight car and as a result
suffered crushed hand and arm and
the almost complete PARALYSIS of his legs.
The hand had to be amputated. In maxi
ing his claims, he asks $500 for medical
services.
Christine Anderson asks the court to
give her judgment for $4,000 aga nst the
st. Paul City Railway company, because
OF injuries sustaine d while she was driv-
ing along East Fifth street. Her horse
became frightened and backed into the
car and the motorman, she claims, in
stead of slowing up kept on at a rapid
gate, the car striking her buggy ano
throwing her out. Mrs. Anderson claims
that she sustained severe bodily injuries.
Because of q defective cover on coai
hole In sidewalk on st. Peter street,
Mrs. Andrine Godske asks that the
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance
company be compelled to pay her $4,000
for the Injuries she sustained. The eel
lar hole wasT Immediately in front of the
property owned by the defendants, and
the accident occurred as she was enter
ing the building. The plaintiff says her
age is fifty-six years and that she was
earning 800 a. month prior to being in
capacitated by the accident
Simon c. Rohn has sued Olaf Feltheim
to recover $500 for damages and injuries
sustained by beingsran down by the lat
ter's team. The plaintiff is a painter and
the defendent a. milkman, and the action
for the suit is based on the claim that
the latter was careless In allowing his
team to stand unhitched. The accident
occurred on Canada street last May.
An icy sidewalk sson Robert street, be-
tween Eighth andsNinth streets, caused
Mary E. Egan, a seventeen-ye ar-old girl
to fall heavily last January and her
mother has accordingly entered suit
against the city. The plaintiff asks to be
reimbursed in the sum of $4,000
Another suit fled against the city is
one brought by Francis H Morgan to
recover $4,000 for injuries sustained by
Wabasha street bridge The accident &C.
Cured last October while the water board
had part of the flooring up, making
some repairs to it's water mains The
water board is mace a party to the suit
= ECHO OF TALLY-HO WRECK.
Ami echo of the famous talry-ho acci-
Denton Dale street last Fourth, of July
was 4heard yesterday in the filing of a
suit by Miss Emma Koplitz against the
city. The accident she says, was en-
tirely the citys fault, and she asks So, 900 .
damagesA Sst@
|. The statutory allowance of 5000 is
asked by Mrs. Catherine Mantoen for the
death of her husband, a laborer en-
ployed up to the tinRe. of his death by thef
American Hoist and Derrick company.
Mantoen was engaged in moving engine
bottoms, when one of them weighing over
800 pounds, fell on him, crushing out his
life. The widow claims that the moving
OF this kind of machinery requires skilled
Rlabof and the fact was known by the
company She also claims that her hus-
band was not furnished sufficient help
and it was largely due to this that the
machine fell on him.