The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-19
$4,000 DAMAGES
SIX SUITS WERE FILED WITH
CLERK OF THE CITY COURT.
SAVANNAH ELECTRIC CO.
MADE DEFENDANT IN FOUR OF
THEM AT AN AVERAGE OF $4,000.

Robert NJ. Smith Wants 100000 Be-
cause Shocked by a Wire-MOzeIIe
j. Lark Sues for Half That Amount
for Injuries Received From Thun-
derboIt Carr. E. Register and
Henry Luhrs Would Like a 81 900
Apiece Because of Trouble With
Transfers-Paul e. Twiggs SueinS
Ocean Steamship Co. for Damages
Sustained in Collision of Birming-
ham and n Dredge-A. II. Girardeau
Sued for Breach of Contract.
A big bunch of damage suits was
filed in the City Court yesterday, six
in all Four of them are against the
Savannah Electric Company, and these
aggregate $4,000. The one of chief
interest because of the amount in
volved is that of Robert NJ. Smith,
who, through his sext friend Benja-
min Smith, sues the Edison Electric
Illuminating Company and the Sa-
vannah Electric Company for 10000.
Smith alleges in his petition that on
the night of March 1, while at a fruit
store at West Broad and Harris streets
AC NellC III NOlAldSL Win a WIG anu
was knocked senseless to the sidewalk
and received permanent injuries to his
hand and an eye.
Another suit against the Savannah
Electric Company for a large amount
is that of Mozelle j. Lark, a dress
maker who lives at Lark Station on
the Thunderbolt road. and who wants
$4,000 for damages she claims to have
received on the night of April 20. Her
story as cited in the petition, is to the
effect that on the night in question she
accompanied some friends to the sta
ton, and that after they had left on
one car she, in crossing the track, was
struck by another car going in the
opposite direction, which she had been
unable to see, both because it was
hidden from her sight by the first car,
and because it displayed no lights. Her
claim for damages she rests on the
bodily pain and mental anguish that
she experienced as the result of the
accident.
j. E. Register claims to have been
damaged to the extent of $1,000 by the
Electric Company because, he states
in his petition, he was given a slip
of paper in lieu of a transfer ticket
from the E. & w. Belt to an Abercorn
street car and that this slip was re-
fused by the conductor of the latter
car, and that the petitioner was in con-
sequence caused to leave the car. The
occurrence happened, it is stated, Aug.
IL.
A similar amount for a similar &C.
currence is asked for by Henry Luhrs,
through his friend, J. G.. O'Connell, ! e.
cause, as he states, May he was
given transfers from the Whitaker
street line to the Thunderbolt car and
the wrong hour being punched on
these transfers they were refused by
the conductor of the Thunderbolt car
and he in consequence was forced to
leave it.
Paul e. Twiggs, a government in
spector, entered suit against the Ocean
Steamship Company for $1,000 ON the
following grounds as set forth in his
petition: That on the night of APRIL
Is. 1902, while on dradge No. 7. belong
ing to p. Sanford loss, which was
properly anchored in the river out of
the way of vessels, the City of Biz
mingham colhded with and sunk it,
causing physical injuries to himself
and the loss of property to the value of
$185.
I. T. Warren entered suit against A.
B. Girardeau of the Johnson's Chill
and Fever Tonic company for 81, $50,
due him, he claims, because but for
breach of contract on the part of the
defendant he would have been able to
make $4,000. The difference in the
amount the plaintiff claims to have
been able to make and that sued for is
accounted for by the deduction of $500
expense money which Girardeau al
lowed and $3.50 which the PLAINTIFF
made in other lines of work while
holding himself subject to the orders
of the defendant.
Each of these cases was filed by
Messrs. Twiggs & Oliver and are made
returnable to the November term of
court