The Lake County times., 1908-09-14
NEAR STEAOGRAPHER
WRITES COMPL LA|NT
Takes Dictations For Legal
Document in Personal
Injury Suit.
She LASTS JUST ONE HOUR
Garbled Phraseology and Misspelled
Words Land Plaintiff On Top
of Ladle of Red Hot Iron.

The possibilities of some near stenog-
rapher in the way of taking dictation
in shorthand and then writing it out on
the typewriter were sufficiently demon
strated short time ago when Attor-
new w. ]. McAleer of Hammond, had
occasion to recruit an East Chicago
damsel in the absence of his regular
stenographer who was on her vacation.
The girl is said to be a student in
Hammond business college, but this is
no reflection on the school as she was
in all probability not recommended by
the school.
In garbling legal phrases and mis-
spelling words, she is a postmaster.
She tore the last thread of patience
with her employer, however. when size
wrote out the following. correctly die
tated legal complaint, which is sub
joined in all it's virgin originality.
That it will take more than a Phila-
delphia lawyer to disentangle the mess,
into the tall timber of her legal
phraseology and spelling.
The complaint is as follows:
The Complaint.
State of Indiana, County of Lakss SIS.
In the Superior Court, September
Term, 1908.
George E. Boone. Plaintiff, vs. Inland
Steel Company, Corporation. Defend
ant
Plaintiff, complains of the defendant
and alleges that the defendant has a
corporation duly organized and execut-
| ing an advertising business in the
County of Lake and State of Indiana.
Paragraph for Philadelphia Lawyer.
That on the 9th day of September
1907 said defendant was running and
conducting a plant in Indiana Harbo1
in which said defendant manufactured
Steel Blats and other materials and also
conducting what is known as Blast
Furniee in the conducting of said Bias
Furnice that in running and conducting
said Blast Furnice it was edjecting from
said Blast Furnice into a certain ladlt
On two trucks what is known and com
lmonly called Cinder which is the Rec
lrefuse of Iron Ore and other material!
in it's liquid state that the plaintiff wa!
injured by it said ladle of said kind o.
fcinder on said day has hereinafter Sc
out.
"Set On the LadIe..
of November 1907 plaintiff was EN-
ployed by defendant to dump said re-
hot liquid cinder out of said ladle on
certain dump or what is known as
cirder dump that on said day plaintiff
went to work about 600 p. m. and tina
he had been working for about II day
THAT plaintiff worked at night TIL
foreman for whom he worked Edwar
-, 70
the Inland Steel Co. that where plant
iff dumped said cinder on said cinde
pile or cinder dump it was dark and n
light and said it was not lighted ther
for sometime that said cinder dump ha
certain incline towards Lake Michi
gan so that when plaintiff setdon tn
Iladle and pulled the pin out to dunn
said cinder or liquid it would f1lo1
away on said incline.
O'DonaId Gets Blame.
Where said cinder was dumped /
propoer shape towards the lake tha
on said day about 600 when plainti
was going to work he meet Edward
C'Donald and asked him whether @
not the cinder dump was in safe condi
ton and at the proper incline that sal
Edward E. OS'Donnald and sal tha
everything was alright and safe fo
; work that plaintiff of Edward J. O'Dor
naId to the above that said cinder dunn
! was safe and the incline in prope
shane so that he would not be injuire
> or burnt went to work as usual an
there was particular in light and ii
cinder was to be dumped on said nigh
s Full Timber of PhraseoloGy.
s When Plaintiff relied and viii
t. dumning the cinder on plaintiff ths
a was at proper inc line the cinder {
z, Iliouid substance and instead of runnin
: down on said decline that plaintiff n
v lied on the statement of said Edwa1
: 7 O'Donnald that said place was sal
s but untrue and in after said settl'
h ,nan+s were endeavored as the defen'
+ ant consequently and negligently pc
+ mir said incline or said cinder dun
0 ~ become one it was that the inclir
7, was towards the Lake but was incline
u towards plaintiff 1t being dire
" thronpht and no lights so the plainti
n n,,1d not see. That when plainti
d dnnned said cinders it fell before Il
e foresaia scoulding mumming, brussin
and hurting the Blood Vessels, Il
plaintiff is now injured and will be i
Is i,,red for his whole life. Plaintiff 10
Ie time when not working and his amou
- accounts to s5O000,
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