Bisbee daily review., 1907-10-04
ASKS slO,OOOF FOR BEING SHOT
 BY FRIEND
Mohn Says Man Who Filled Him With Lead By Accident Ageed To Pay All Expenses Of Hospital.
lPhoenix Democrat. ]

(Phoenix Democrat.)
 Asking that the court award him SIG, 900 damages, Peter RIohn has filed suit in the district c3i.rt against U. L. Irwin, who accidentally shot him while the two were hunting near Roosevelt an March 2s of this year.
 Mohn's suit is one of the biggest surprises that has come out of the office of District Clerk Dunlevy in several months. and has been the sub ject of several comments in Phoen.x.
 Except for the filing of this suit an impression prevails that Mohn and Irwin were on the friendliest terms, and had reached perfect under standing regarding the accident that almost cost Mohn his life and has caused much suffering and regret to Irwin.
 Mohn asks for s1 900. expended m medical attention, s2,0O0 for the profits he lost in business by reason of his being laid up and the remain Ing s7,000 for permanent injuries he claims to have sustained as Q result of the shooting.
 Frank H. Lyman and A. c. Baker are Mohns attorneys. In the com plaint against Irwin they allege that the tgo men were hunting together on March 2S, both having shotguns for the purpose of hanting wild game They alighted from a wagon together and proceeded to hunt, shortly afte~ which the accident happened.
 A charge of fine shot from Irwin 5 gun struck Mohn in the eyes, face l and head, permanently impaiTing his eyesight He was taken to Roosevelt and for several days his life was con sidered in danger. He later recover ed sufficiently to go to Los Angeles, where he spent the summer Irwin has retained George Purdy Bullard 10 look after his legal inter- ests. He said this morning:
 T did pay all the expenses incurred at Roosevelt and on the way to Phoe- nix Nothing was ever said or any agreement made whereby I was to pay anything. The filing of this suit has been a mental relief. for I have ] suffered much because of the acci- dent te'F
 ,G. < Mohu asserts that Irwin agreed to pax. all of 4he medical expenses and that he has several times called on him to pay half He asserts that IT, VIII AdS IGAuoSu IO puy any part OL the expenses. Irwin states that he never made any agreement regarding the payment of the expenses.
 In the complaint filed by Attorneys Lyman and Baker for Mohn, the lat teT's legal version of the accident is given:
 That after the plaintiff had alight- ed from the wagon and had left the same the defendant also alighted from the wagon with his gun and pro | ceeded to hunt wild game in the inl- mediate vicinity where the plaintiff was at the time and just as the plain tiff was, engaged in the act of shoot ing game, he, the said defendant. , then and there quickly raised his gun i 10 his shoulder and pointed it toward | the plaintiff and carelessly, neglf- gently and recklessly discharged his gun toward the plaintiff:
 That at the time the defendant raised his gun to his shoulder and discharged it as aforesaid toward the | plaintiff the defendant was about SIX ty feet distant from the plaintiff and that the defendant discharged his gun | without giving any warning or notice l whatever to -nlainfiff:
 4That nlaintiff did not s,a the de fendant when he raised his gun 10 his shoulder to fire the same and had no knowledge of the defe1dant's In. | tention to shoot''
 Asked this afternoon .bout Mohn' $ allegation that they were in plain
 view of each othef when the accident
 took place. Irwin stated that at the
 time he shot he could not see Mohn high brush being between them
 Mohn was then several hundred feet
 from where he had last seen him. He
 had no knowledge of Mohn's return tc
 his vicinity, and when he shot was
 aiming at a bird. which had jGss
 raised.