Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-23
Council Bluffs
HOST OF new SUITS FILED
Big Rush by Attorneys in District
Court to Get Under Wire.
DAMAGE SUITS ARE NUMEROUS
ID. ". steinbaush Sues Owners o
Building IN which Elevator Fell
CausinE Touring Car Co
Fall Upon Him.

Fall UpOn Him.
Yesterday was the last day for service
OF notice Of filing suits IN the district
court for the November term, and every
member Of the sheriffs official family
was leg weary last night, Today is the
final period for filing suits for the term
and there was the usual rush YESTERDAY
which will be more than duplicated todiy.
The filings for the term have been I'M
usually light and with the big rush of
yesterday and the expected acquisitions to-
day the docket for the November term
Will not be nearly as large as that for
August
In the suits filed yesterday the usual
proportion OF damage cases Was provided
The Citizens Gas and Electric Light com
psny drew a prize package in the shape
OF suit for $4,000, flied by Bertha IN
rlckson as guardian OF Della May Ulrick-
son, 10 years old. who was hit by an
automobile driven By r. r. starr, an en-
ploye Of the company The accident &C.
CURED on May 10 Of this year The auto
used by Starr in his duty OF inspecting
the eOmpany's lighting system lines was a
| high-wheeled Hoffman. At the corner
Of First avenue and South Seventh street
/ the little girl ran across the street and
was knocked down by the machine The
allegation is made that she was seriously
ana permanently injured and the company
| Is held responsible for the accident Man
ager English said last evening the plain
TIFF had made an offer to compromise the
suit for $500, which was rejected.
Auto Fell en- Him.
When a big seven-psssenger auto be-
| longing to j. r. Long broke down an
| elevator upon which Il was being raised
/ to the repair shop and fell upon him
after dropping twenty feet. d. r. Stein
baugh, an automobile repair man and
machinist, only asked 5000 from the own
ers of the building, whom he charges with
negligence in failing to provide safe cables
for the, hoist. The owners Of the building
In which the repair shop is located are
David J. Hutchinson and the Bank of
shelby. The accident occurred on Decem-
Der "a, 1909, at the Linsel paint shop. The
elevator was guaranteed to carry 1000
pounds, and when steinbaugh ran the ma
chine upon 1t and started to descend,
standing on the platform, the cable parted
and the whole thinG went 10 the bottom.
the automobile turning a somersauIt and
landing on steinbaugh He escaped death
by the narrowest margin and was pain
fully bruised.
T. j. Smith filed a suit against the Mil
waukee Railway company, claiming dam.
ages 70 the amount OF S1o1.S7 for shrinkage
| IN shipment of fat hogs which he loaded
at Weston, ten miles east OF Council
Bluffs, and consigned to the South Oma he
markets. He claims the car was delay cd
In Council Bluffs seven hours through
negligence of the company's employees.
Emma and Samuel Christianson, A. Il
! WoolwOrth, William II. Williams. Waite,
Williams, Winnie II. Williams, Mary Konk
Ter, Dbl. Williams, George z. Williams
and Josephine Jones filed a suit to breal
i the will Of Mrs. Louis Ryan. who died Ma,
a. 1902 and left all OF the property to tn,
husband. The plaintiffs are children an,
grandchildren. The property involved is
forty-acre farm and some personal prop
erty
Suit to Break WIN.
Mrs. Belle Knepher brought suit agains
the Omaha 4 Council Bluffs Street Railwa,
company for 5000 in satisfaction OF DER
sonal injuries alleged TO have been sus
tanned last July and caused BY the ca
starting while she was in the act of aHsht
ing. No details are given.
The docket was augmented bv tbre,
new divorce suits. Emma Lamaack ASK,
! relief from the presence OF Peter Ia
mack, whom she married in the old Ger
man home town Of Weddingstedt. on Ma
I % 1854. She alleges habitual drunkenness,
cruelty and desertlon, the latter occurring
: on September Is, 1907 She asks only for di
vorce and costs of suit. Alma Alice Kern
/ asks divorce from her husband, Francis
: on the ground Of cruelty and the custody O
their three minor children. Maggie A
Hayes hales her husband, Friend Leonar
a Hayes, into court. charging him with in
fidelity and desertion. She also asks 10
the custody Of their two children. son
/ aged 10 and IA years and title 10 thei
7 homestead, which they acquired ten year
: ago, but which stands in his name. sh
4 alleges he is earning from $50 10 500
= month, and asks the court to award he
500 OF his savings as allmony
Moses NJ Marks began another railroa
|, damage suit for alleged injuries to horse
t shipped from Nampa, Ida, 10 the sout
i Omaha market The shipment comprise
y three cars, and several OF the horses wer
p iseriously damaged in their long trE fror
Il the mountains, chiefly II is claimed throug
tho negligence OF the railroad men He ASK
: judgment for SEQ