The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-04-07
CORK LEGS 50 WELL MADE THAT $500 VERDICT
FOR BABY'S LOST LEG is TOO MUCH, SAID JUDGE
So Supreme Justice Chas.
Garrison Set Aside the
Verdict, and Now There
Are a hot of People in
Jersey Who Want
Things Done to MIR. JUS
tice Garrison.

NEWARK. y J.. April a. Dor
othy McDcrmott Is ouiy five years
old. but the tiny eork leg she wears
IN place 81 the one that was cut
off by Newark street car may,
figlratively. be used 10 kick a
Judge off the supreme bench ol the
state
An the union men of the state.
and q good many 0ther people
tee. are signing petitions demand.
lng thar Justice Chas Garrison be
removed by Gov Fort from the
supreme court bench because he
said. after a jury had given veN
diet in hovihys favor
"The verdict o. $500 Is too
high. The Jury old rot take into
confederation the great Improve
meut IN cork legs"
Mes Mcnermott Dorothy s.
mother sat on the back porch and
watched the children playing in
the hack yard as she told the
story Little Dorothy stood of 90
one side. watching them too
m happened a year ago." said
Mrs Mcpcrmott Some 81 the
children came running In and
shouted out that Dorothy had been
killed under a street car Then a
man came around he coruer. car
rylnx Dorothy Her left les was
gone and the doctors hardly saved
her lfa
Tina, Improved Cork Leg.
Just herc Mttle Dorothy came up
Imping and interrupted her mother
Mamma. take It Oft won't youg
Il hurts me SC
aBus YOU must learn to walk with
H.. replied the mother tendcrly.
But Il hurts mamma, answered
Dorothy
81 me see" said the mother
she bent down over her baby girl
and IN a moment she gave a little
cry Of pity
why. rs All red aud raw she
said I'm take u off
And she uustFapped the wonder
fal cork limb which che Justice, who
wouldn't take $50 600 apiece ior bis
honorable legs, had praised 40
highly.
Dorothy hoped away on one leg
10 q clothes pole IN the middle or
the ward and leaned against thai
10 watch the children Jump rope
shes worn that for months now
but Il hurts her yei" said Mrs Nc
Dermott Then she continued her
story
Mosorman's Fault.
~we found out that il was al the
moformau's fault lie didn't even
slaeken the speed Of the car. and
when We took the case to trial there
was no doubt OF the oompanys
guilt.
IT vas only a qEestlon 81 how
much a little girls les was worth
Dorothy IL 40 bright and smart that
she was able 20 tell a great deal
about the accident. and she helped
her own case
The Jury said that she ought 90
have s.. 500. because some taY when
she had grown 10 be a woman the
loss % her Lex would be- q greater
afflictiun 20 her
THE street car company took the
case ap "a the supreme court and
Judge Garrison granted the com
pauy another trial
@re said tina, cork legs ~ers 50
we'll made these days that s8,5oo
was too much 20 pay for any hu'
man leg.
We had another trial and the
jury found the company guilty
again. but this jury because d
what the Judge had said had 70
cut the verdict down almost one.
halt
As Mrs McDermoti talked We
watched Dorothy trying 20 jump
rope with the other girls She
hoped four times over the rope
and then stopped II was pitiable
The rest % her body was strong
and 1.-THE. bur no little girl no
matter how strong she is. can play
on one leg
We saw the girls drop the rope
and run 20 her She was crying
The mother ran ont 70 her and