The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-23
MANY SUITS AGAINST
 NEW HAVEN ROAD New Law of Trial by Jury Piles Up Heavy Damage
 Claims. S2,000 SMOKE ACTION Executors of Estate of Late Eli Whitney File Account in
 Probate Court.
s2,000 SMOKE ACTION

road yesterday morning by Sheriff Spiegel. The suits are brought by Per- cy s. Palmer and James K. Christie of New York, the firm of Palmer and Christie and by Matthew Kramke of New York, the first being for $1O,O0O and the other which is for personal injuries, for $5,OoO
 September 6, 1906, large touring car owned by Palmer and Christie, In which were MT. Palmer and MT. Kramke, was rolling along East street near Wooster when 1t was struck by a rapidly moving trolley car.
 The auto was wrecked and Kranke. it is claimed, was severely injured. J. J. Desmond Of Norwich, is the attorney for both Palmer and Christie and Mir. Kramke.
 The suits are returnable to the Sep tember term of the superior court when the first damake suits against the New Haven road, brought under the trial by jury law are to come up.
 Suit has been brought through At torney B. E. Lynch by Mrs. Bridget s. Rowen of 43 Artizan street against the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Co. and Charles w. Blakeslee, penins A. Blakeslee and Clarence Blakeslee, the contractors on the cut ia which she asks $2,OO0 damages for the general nuisance the cut has caus- e1 Mrs. Rowan alleges that the cut work, which runs up to within few feet of her property, is being negligent. ly dcne, and that the excavations and pounding have materially weakened her building. She further claims that the dust and dirt together with the smoke from the hoisting engine used in the work made her house untenable and driven out all her roomers.
 In a separate count against the rail. road company Mrs. Rowan claims dam. ages for the usual smoke nuisance caused by running trains through the cut The suit is returnable to the Sep, | tember term of the superior court. | Charles A. Altman, of 14O3 Boulevard yesterday brought suit against the New Haven road, alleging damages of $5,OOt for injuries received by being throwr 1 from a trolley car on Whalley avenu; the evening of June Ii, Attorney Johr | Elliott is counsel for MT. Altman ant | the case Is returnable to the superior court the first Tuesday in September While about to alight from the car or the evening in question Mir Altman was violently thrown from the step by a sudden lurch of the car, 1t is alleged 1 in the writ. His ankle was badly frac. tured and he sustained many bruises The plaintiff Is employed by Randall the photographer in Hartford city. William F, Teddy of Mount Carmel has brought suit against the Connee ticut company through Attorney Der, nard Lynch. MT. Leddy alleges that or the night of June 15 while a north bound trolley car on which he was z passenger was travelling near the Vel shop, he was knocked through the yes tibule door and out into the roadway sustaining severe injuries, some O which are permanent.
 | MT. Leddy was in the vestibule O the car as were several other passen gers, the car being crowded to tht doors. The motorman was running a 40 mile gait over very uneven tracl and two sudden lurches of the ca tossed him through the doorway. The crowd on the platform was st thrown about that they unavoldabll pushed Mir. Leddy off the car. Tw, thousand dollars damages are claim ed. MT. Leddy has lost the hearing 1T one ear and suffered fractured ribs an( other injuries,
 Giuseppe sorfiippi, a laborer wh was employed by C. w. Blakeslee { Sens on the New Haven railroad GU has brought suit against that firn claiming $2,0O0 damages for injuries
 The plaintiff says that two finger of his left hand were cut off on Jul. 21 while he was rigging up derricl in the cut Somebody gave the wort to an engineer to start the power ant the laborer's hand got caught in ca ble and the fingers were cut off.
 Constable Roscoe Brown served tn, papers in the suit on Blakeslee & Son yesterday.
 The yearly account of Eli Whitne!