Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-31
BIG DAMAGE SUITS
Federal Court Session at Fort
Dodge Taken Up With Ac-
tions Against Roads
SUMS ASKED OVER 100000
All the Cases Filed for the June Term
are Damage Suits Against Railroad
companies-Grand and Petit Jurors
Have Been Drawn-Review Of Ca
ses Filed.
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Fort Dodge, May 31-Federal court
| for this district court opens on June
| 10, with six cases slated for trial. 1t
| is a railroad session this time, there
being nothing but railway cases UP
for trial in the way of civil suits. All
of them are personal injury cases and
amounts to $137,500.
John McDonough brings action
against the Chicago Great Western
railway for $4,000 damage on the
grounds that he received personal in
juries that have untitled him for Ia
Dor for the rest of his life, while
| working for the company as fireman
on one of their stationary boilers at
the Oelwein shops. A bursted fue
was the cause of the injury.
S. A. Norstrum, of Ogden, brings
action against the C.. & N. w. for the
same amount on the ground of injur-
les sustained by him in collision in
the stock yards at Chicago.
p. D. Anderson of this city, sues the
Illinois Central Railway Company for
injuries received by him while work.
ing in the coal yards here, in which
he was knocked off tender by the
coaling crane. He asks $4,000 for
alleged permanent injuries.
Bertha Carey asks $500 damages
for injuries received in collision at
Ankeny, while riding on the c. &. N.
w. railway.
Catherine McCarty, as administra-
trix, brings action against the Chicago
Great Western railway for the death
of James j. Crotty, crushed between
cars on a siding at Coulter.
Mary O'Brien asks $4,000 of the
Northwestern for the death of her son,
j. ]. O.'Brien, an express messenger,
who was killed in a railway accident
at Mongona, where the train left the
track on curve.
The jury is as follows:
Grand jurors-E. Mckinley, Rowan;
NJ Seefeld, Sexton; William
Wallace, ERADICATE; c.. c. Cleophas.
Kensett; L. ]. Clane, Ottosen; John
Kersten, Woodstock; j. d. Martin, West
Bend; James Boos. Hansell; X. o..
Overstrud, Kensett; j. D. Fitzgerald;
Varina; George Plats, Bristol; G. w.
Page. Plymouth; c. j. Lenander, Ban
croft; H. c. Tillinghast, Clarion; q.
w. Gallagan, Buffalo Center; Gust
Benson, Pocahontas; James Coutts.
Garner; E. S. George. Graettinger;
George whyte, Goldfield; George l..
Arnold, Allison; j. P. Mulroney, NAL
lard; Chris Ottosen, Ottosen; Obey
~ al
Estherville; Harvey Summers, Clarion;
Alexander Groves, Webster City; j. n.
Sheridan, Bancroft; H. G. Lyford,
Greene; w. P. Hopkins, Laurens; w.
II. Fife, Emmetsburg.
Petit Jurors.
F. l.. jerks, Ledyard, Ia; Ben Nell
son, Baskerville; A. II. Beecher, Ma
son city; George Ritz, Rockwell City;
A. F. Parker Mason City; Morgan
Schenck, Mason City: w. v. Palmer,
Goldfeld; Guy French. Faulkner; r.
Brooks, ERADICATE; r. NJ. Harrison,
Hansell; John Stanton, Humboldt: w.
H. Foot, Estherville; John r. Olson,
Thor; w. d. Braden, Eagle Grove;
D. G.. FIpp, Graettinger; F. X. Love-
Dows; William Nettleton, Mason City;
G. C. Phillips Pocahontas; L. L.
Druley, Huntington: H. r. Weber, Gill
more City; c. Dyson, Algona; j. A.
Barber, Baskerville; N. E. Thone, Ken
sett; John Carey, Webster City; c. II.
Nicely, Kamrar; August Horstman.
Britt; H. j. Ries, Armstrong; Robert
Carr, Mason City; S. III. Schlick, Gar
ner; John Sorlien, Bode; George Bar
foot, Ayrshire; William WEIGH, Man.
son; N. P. Larson, Ringsted; Robert
R. Smith, Renwick; ]. D. Barton,
Thornton; 3. j. Heffner, Sheffield.