The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-11-08
p Number of Actions of Tort for
Large Amounts Disclosed on
Return Day of the Superior
Civil Court
THE CITY DEFENDANT IN
A SUIT FOR $4,000
William Harrington Seeks to Re-
cover for Alleged Damage
Caused by the Discharge Of
SeWage-Street Railway Com
panieS in MANY Cases

Return day in Superior Court, yester-
day, disclosed a number of actions of
tort of some magnitude. Most Of these
suits were directed against Street Rail
way companies, but the City Of Wor-
cester was made defendent in the
largest suit of all.
William Harrington, of Worcester,
through his attorneys, Hopkins, Smith
& Hopkins. is suing for $4,000 for dam
age caused by the discharge of sew
age. Plaintiff in his declaration says
that for 20 years he has been the own
er of a parcel of land and buildings,
in Millbury, situated on both sides Of
the Blackstone River, the same being
known as Atlanta Mills estate and de-
voted to the manufacture of fine WOOL
len goods; that plaintiff had a dam
across the river, a water power and IA
cilities for washing the goods, which
were in use by him until the acts COM
planned Of
Plaintiff then sets up that the sew
age flowing into Millbrook flows into
the Blackstone River, and that it is
improperly purified to the nuisance Of
the plaintiff and the injury of his pro-
perty.
H. Kelley of Warren, VS.. Walter A.
Putnam of Warren. Plaintiff says he
was arrested by defendant, Sept. "a,
and kept in county Jail for the space
of seven days and released by Supreme
Judicial Court on a writ of habeas
corpus, ana that July %, plaintiff ar
rested him and held him in unlawful
confinement, and took him to Waldo
Street police station in Worcester and
p1ain
asks $4,000 Edwin F. Lyford, Spring
field. attorney.
Maud Dorr VS.. Lowell C. Gallup, Wor- |
cester. "And the plaintiff says the de-
PENDANT made an assault upon her, and
choked her throat and otherwise beat
and bruised her to her great injury"
AID damnum $500.
Joseph Matthew of Southbridge VS.. |
Southbridge PrintingCompany, ad dam
mum $4,000.
Frank E. Oliver, by Samuel U. Oliver, |
VS.. Worcester Consolidated Street Rail- |
way Company. Plaintiff alleges that |
his collar bone was broken and that he |
received other injuries by being thrown
from car of the defendant company. |
Aug.14, by reason of the improper |
starting of the car.
Charles w. Harris VS.. The Fitchburg !
& Leominster Street Railway Company.
Action of tort to recover for injuries
received ad damnum $4,000.
Grace E. Barnes VS.. Fitchburg & |
Leominster Street Railway Company, |
action Of tort, $4,000, for injuries receiv- |
ed Aug. 81, from cars Of defendant
company, while plaintiff was driving
upon Water Street, Fitchburg.
Thomas r. Murphy, by Agnes e. |
Murphy, his mother VS.. The Worces-
ter Consolidated Street Railway Com |
pany. Plaintiff claims $4,000. Injur-
les alleged to have been received from |
car of defendants while plaintiff was
crossing Grove Street, Worcester, June
6, 1901, whereby his collar bone was
broken and his right leg, in two places.
Louis Bombardier vs. H. j. Beebee |
leges that he was injured March 49, |
by a defective picking machine in the
mill of the defendant, and asks $4,000 |
damages. Plaintiff resides in Spencer. |
Charles A. Dalin of Worcester brings
suit for $4,000 VS.. Worcester Consolida-
ted Street Railway Company, for loss
of the services and the society of Err |
nest F. Dalin, his son. and to recover
for funeral expenses. The son was kill |
ed by a fall from the roof of defend |
ants barn, June II.
William H Freeman vs. Worcester |
Consolidated Street Railway Company. |
Plaintiff alleges that while riding BIZ |
cycle across Main Street, while going |
from Austin to Myrtle Street, Aug. II, |
he was struck by car of the defendant |
company, and drawn under the fender |
and greatly injured. He claims $4,000. |
Mary Ide VS.. Fitchburg & Leominster |
Street Railway Company $4,000, for in |
juries alleged to have been inflicted |
on plaintiff, Aug. 81, when she was
struck by a car while driving on Water |
Street in Fitchburg. Plaintiff resides |
in Lunenburg.
John Mahoney of Milford vs. Bay
State Pink Granite Company Plain |
tiff sues for $4,000 for injuries received |
in, Oct 1900, by the slipping of a rock, |
in the works of the defendant, upon |
which plaintiff was employed. The in |
juries are further alleged to have been |
due to the negligence of J. T. Halla- |
CHAN, foreman for the defendant.
Edwin c. Ham VS.. Charles E. Hilton, |
$4,000. To recover for injuries received |
Aug. 10, by a derrick, furnished to |
plaintiff by defendant and erected up
on the premises at Grafton & Ward |
Streets, Worcester.
Charles I. Rawson of Oxford VS. Sam |
uel B. Thing of Boston, action of con-
tract, $4,000, to recover on defendants |
agreement to pay legal expenses of GER
tain suits, especially the suit of the |
Apponaug Company VS.. Rawson and |
Thing, for which expenses have been |
incurred by plaintiff in amount of
s17O3 for services, as by bill Of w. A. |
Gile, annexed.
William H. Fay and Michael T. |
Dwyer of Clinton VS.. George H. Hager |
Of Clinton. The plaintiffs ask $4,000 in |
an action of contract alleging that de-
PENDANT has failed to keep a certain
agreement of date of August s. The
agreement is annexed and shows that
in consideration of $4,000 to De paid
Sept. 1, the plaintiffs were to sell their
rights in certain mining properties in |
the Sierra Grande Mountains, Colorado, |
known as the Judd claim. plaintiffs |