The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1910-08-05
RAILROADS SUED
FOR BIG DAMAGES
Boston & Maine and Rutland
Companies Defendants.
ALLEGED DAMAGES TOTAL SIS. 900
Former Corporation Sued by Grafton
Man for Injuries 20 His son-Death
OF Brakeman Cause OF Sui, Against
Rutland

Stella ". Ingram of Newfane, al,
minisiratrix Of the estate Of Arthur Z,
Ingram of rockingham. has brought a
suit for $4,000 against the Rutland
| railroad for the death of her husband
IN the railroad yard al Bellows Falls,
Oct. 80, 1909, Arthur T.. Carpenter Of
braiileboro j. attorney for the plain
/ til, The papers were served upon
4. q. Adams, clerk 81 the Rutland rail
road company at Rutland by Sheriff =,
q. Fish Of Rutland Saturday. The ease
will be entered on the docket OF the
September term Of Windham county
court
The plaintiff claims in her deelara-
| iion that the defendant road did not
run It's switching engine NJ Bellows
/ Falls with proper preeaution IN regard
/ 20 persons obliged 20 cross the tracks
in that yard in the discharge of duty.
that the engine was not properly
equipped with lights and that trainmen,
bra kemen and other servants were not
properly stationed on the engine 90
warn persons who might be in the rail-
road ward discharging their duties.
Ii l. claimed that the plaintiff : hus-
band was employed as Boston a
Maine brakeman and that while cXer'
cising due care the servants Of the
defendant ran a switching engine up
on him aud manned him in such man.
ner that be died within few min.
utes. The plaintiff claims that the
engine was run AT a dangerously rapid
speed while pushing q milk ear from
certain siding and that no servant
of the company was properly stationed
20 warn persons Obliged TO use nearby
tracks in the discharge of their duties.
IL will be remembered that Mr., In
A - l. aNlfr
engine in the Bellows Falls yard about
g clock on the evening OF Oct. 80,
1909. while his wife was waiting in
the station for him TO finish his day 5
duty. He died about 20 minutes later.
Henry Grover of Grafton, as the
next friend of his minor son. Julius l..
Grover, has brought a suit for 100000
damages against the Boston 4 Maine
railroad. alleging that through the serv'
ants of the defendant his son has
been MANNED for life and lost the use
of his left leg. Service was made IN
the suit Saturday upon Gibson
Waterman, attorneys for the Boston
q Maine railroad, and the case Will
be entered at the September term OF
Windham county court. A. T.. Carpen'
ter and X. c. Bacon are attorneys for
the plaintiff.
The plaintiff claims that Julius l..
Grover got on passenger car OF the
defendant company at the Brattleboro
station Sept. %, 1907 and that the ear
was waiting for passengers; he had IN
his possession a ticket from Brattle.
boro to Bellows Falls. The plaintiff
alleges that brakeman or trainman
wantonly and unlawfully laid violent
hands upon the boy and used excessive
force in eieeting him from the ear. In
SO doing it is alleged that the boys
right leg was struck against a railing
of the car, causing him 10 become Ill,
lame and disabled. 1t is claimed that
amputation became necessary because
of the injury and that the removal OF !
the bone from the rest of the leg was |
making the injury total
loss of the leg.
The plaintiff alleges that the defend
ant did not accord to the plaintiff the |
he was entitled TO and that
the defendant employed servants who
were incompetent.
This is one of the largest suits for
personal damages brought against
railroad in Windham county court in
number of years, and will interest
MANY persons as the injuries alleged to
have occurred happened during the. week
Of the Valley Fair in 1907 when
large crowd of people had assembled at
the local passenger station to take
trains.