Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-03-26
BIG DAMAGE GASES
A Number of Heavy Damage
Suits Filed in Federal Court
at Cedar Rapids
MOSTLY AGAINST RAILWAYS
Milwaukee Company Made Defendant
in Two Actions Assresatins Nearly
$5o,ooo-IIIinois Central Sued For
Death in the Raymond Wreck-other
Suits Filed.
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Special TO I1meS- Republican,.
Cedar Rapids, March 26-With a
number of interesting personal damage
cases, and other suits Of more than
passing Importance, the spring term of
federal court for the Cedar Rapids dis
trict Will open In the federal building
April }. Judge Reed Will preside. 1t is
expected thar he and Clerk Wander Zee
VIII arrive In the city Monday proceed
ing the opening of the session. Not a
rev or the cases are the result of rail-
road accidents. some peculiar in their
happening and some more simple but
not less unfortunate.
VI the litigations to be heard the
matters Of w. A. Gates VS.. tine c.. NJ.
& st. p. railroad; Matthew Callahan
VS.. the Chicago. Milwaukee & ST. Paul;
BUD Snouffer vs. the Chicago &
Northwestern; Carrie NJ Blabaum VS..
the Illinois Central; Herman Carsten-
sen vs.. the Chicago & Northwestern
railroad Company, and Lulu Slattery,
administrative of the estate of ]. r.
Slattely. deceased, VS.. the Chicago.
Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Com
pany, are all cases In which trial no.
tces have been filed. The remaining
ones are new cases, which have been
filed since the last session and which
may be called for trial during the
term.
On the case Of w. A. Gates vs.. the C..
M 4 ST +. railroad in which the sum
OF $lO,00O damages is asked. Gates
was assisting in handling baggage at
Marion, when revolver in q trunk
which he was taking from a truck was
discharged and the bullet passed thru
the trunk and struck him in the breast
and passed thru his right lung.
In the case of Callahan VS.. the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & st. Paul Railway
Company, the plaintiff sues for $4,000.
he claims to have been permanently
injured while working as foreman of
construction gang at Madrid.
The case Of ]. j. Snouffer, Jr., vs..
The Chicago & Northwestern Railway
Company, which was originally
brought In the district court, will also
come up. This is an interesting lit
igation resulting from the stone dam
built by the railroad across the Cedar
river just below the racking house.
Plaintiff claims that the course OF the
river was changed and his stone
crushing plant damaged. He asks
$12,500.
Carrie Blabaum Is plaintiff in an ac-
ton for $4,000 against the Illinois
Central Railroad Company for con-
structing ditch thru her land in the
town Of Ackley.
Eanoou. cou, ca.a
The case Of Frank Luckman VS..
in which there is already stack of
testimony actually two or three feet
in height, will be heard once more.
It is case started in January, 1903,
when the defendant, Francis Kane.
commenced suit in equity in the dis
trict court of Iowa, Johnson county,
against Luckanan for the specific per-
Torrance OF an alleged contract and
averring in substance that said Luck
man had sold to said Kane $40 COWS
and refused to deliver the same. In
the suit Kane obtained temporary
writ of injunction restraining said
Luckman from disposing Of the cows.
Luckman Immediately commenced
proceedings in the federal court for
damages alleged to have been sustain-
ed by him from Kane's action. The
matter is still in court, altho the
expenses now incurred have passed
the value of the property in the orig
inal contract.
The Iowa Lillillooet Gold Mining
company, now famous in this state,
will have a litigation with b. B. Bliss
and the U. S. Fidelity and Guaranty
Co.
The American Cereal Company is
plaintiff in number of cases growing
out Of the big fire which destroyed the
mills here. The company is suing
various insurance companies for sums
aggregating $4,000.
sIattery Case to Come Up.
Lulu Slattery, administrative OF the
estate of j. Fl. Slattery, deceased, vs.
The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
Railway Co., defendant, is a case trans
ferred from the Johnson county dis
trict court to the federal court here.
She alleges her husbands death While
he was in the employ Of the company
as a freight conductor was caused by
the carelessness and negligence OF the
company and it's agents. She demands
$4,000.
Another suit against a railway COM
pany is that of May Stoneman against
the Illinois Central She is asking for
$4,000 on account of the death of F.
A. Stoneman, an engineer, who was
killed in the terrible wreck at Ray
mond.