Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-04-02

was expecting patient from Center Rut-
land concerning whom she had heard no
! particulars. When she discovered a very
! detected looking man in the reception
room she at once ordered him as best she
could by gestures 1.-THE Hun could not
speak English) to go to the bath room
and battle. As the foreigner did not pay
any heed to her, two nurses took him
forcibly to the beth room and, after some
remonstrance on his part, which they
mistook for stubbornness, they Invested
him of his clothing and put him into the
tub. Later, when the mar, after being
put into clean nightshirt, was tucked
into bed, an attache of the hospital was
summoned as interpreter and through
him the alleged patients real motive in
visiting the hospital was learned. As
soon as he was given his Ustreet clothes,
the man left without seeing his brother.
The negligence case against Temple
Bros, marble and granite manufacturers
brought by Mrs. Rose Lefevre of Rutland
to recover 81, 900 because OF the death of
her husband while working at the Tenn
pie plant in 1905, went to the jury in
Rutland county court last week Tuesday
and verdict for the defense was rem.
dered. This case was of more than usual
interest in that the defense held a paper
signed by Mrs. Iefevre after the payment
of $3.50. releasing the firm from all liabil-
ity in the matter. The plaintiff claimed
that Mrs. Lefevre was mentally incapaci
tated when she signed the paper. The
same day began the case of Edward l.
Vail of Pawlet vs.. the Rutland Railroad
Co., loss of service. Vail asked for IS, 900,
alleging that he was damaged to that ex-
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a fall while getting off train at Dandy
that she was incapacitated for her house
hold duties for months. Mrs. Vail sued
the road for negligence two years ago and
got a verdict for personal injuries. The
jury brought in sealed verdict awarding
Vail s725.41 for damages for loss of serv-
ices. The railroad contended that Vail
could demand no damages because it set
tied for the personal injuries of Mrs.
Vail for the same accident.
The Rutland school commissioners
have announced that they will take i'm
mediate steps to have the high school la
boratory condemned unless the aldermen
hand over to them the $4,000 recently
voted for high school repairs, but kept
back because of controversy over the
method of payment of school bills. 1t
has been customary for years for the
chairman of the finance committee of the
school board to draw school money from
the city treasurer by lump sum warrant
and then pay the school bills by personal
check. The aldermen, on suggestion of
the auditors a few weeks ago, decided
that this was not very business like and
ordered that all school bills be paid by
individual check by the city treasurer.
The board of education took counsel on
the matter and after holding up the
monthly payroll OF the janitors two
weeks decided that the aldermen could
not dictate to it in this and so the matter
will probably go to the supreme court.
The laboratory is on the upper story of
the high school and is reached by mar
row stairway, which in case of fire would
be the only means Of exit. The high
school is already badly overcrowded and
to take the laboratory away would be
serious handicap.