The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-22
THREE SUITS,
TWO $1,000 EACH
John whteside, Plaintiff in Two
Legal Actions Taken Against
chas. slaeger and John
seitz.
WON WIFE's AFFECTIONS
Mrs. Sarah carrigan Asks Judgment
of 5000 From Duncan-schelI
Co. for Fall Through
Shaft.

Inc superior court was productive
Of three suits which were filed today
the first one of these legal prelimi-
naries brought to note is a suit
against Chas slaeger, defendant, by
John Whiteside, plaintiff. The second
one John Whiteside brings action in
second contest against one John
Seftz, defendant. The third and prob
ably the most important of the trio of
legal actions, is suit brought against
the Duncan Schell Furniture Company
by Mrs. Sarah Carrigan
The First.
In the John Whiteside VS.. Chas.
Slaeger suit, Whiteside asks for judge
ment of 1921, which he claims is
owing him by the defendant White
side, 1t is stated in the petition, in
vented window lock. Slaeger was
to buy a half interest in the patent
for the SUM of $3.50. The defendant
1t seems owns boat valued at $3.50,
and an agreement was framed up
between the two men whereby Slae-
ger was to pay $3.50 of the $3.50 OBJ
tanned from the boat sale if consum
mated, to the plaintiff for the patent
share. From this amount, $40 was to
be deducted from the $3.50 due White
side on account of some life preserv-
ers tire plaintiff had received in deal
from the boat owner and defendant
in the suit. The plaintiff asks for
judgement in the amount of 1921. in
terest and cost of court action.
The Second.
John Whiteside VS.. John Seitz, de-
PENDANT in the second suit named
above, is one in which the plaintiff
asks the court for judgement in the
amount of $4,000 due him he claims on
account of the defendants actions in
alternating the affections of Mrs. Seitz,
formerly Minnie Huntley, and to
whom the plaintiff was married about
year ago. Whiteside claims that
various tales were told by the defen-
dant about Mr.. and Mrs. Seitz sepa-
rating after they had been married
only six months. The plaintiff also
says his wife left him a short while
ago and that she removed to another
part of the city. The defendant, the
plaintiff claims, met Mrs Whiteside
at various places throughout the city
and by various stories told to others
in the city, alieniated the affections
and conjugal relations of the plaintiffs
wife. For mental anguish and dis
tress of mind. the plaintiff therefore
asks for the aforesaid amount.
The Third.
Suit has been filed in the superior
court by Mrs. Sarah Carrigan against
tie Duncan Schell Furniture Company.
The plaintiff claims in her petition
that on or about the sixteenth day of
April, 1910. she was seriously injured
through negligence of the defendant
In the suit, in leaving to be unguarded
an elevator shaft, through which sse,
the plaintiff fell and received serious
cuts and bruises and suffered much
mental anguish, loss of time and In
Cured doctors and nurses bills. The
amount prayed for in the petition to
the court is $4,000, which the plaintiff
claims is due her on account of the
accident with which she met. In the
petition it is claimed by the plaintiff
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in front of the door through which
she passed, and the place being dark,
she suffered severe fall WREN being
taken through the door.