Omaha daily bee., 1911-10-22
Council Bluffs
Host of Lawsuits
Get Under the Wire
in District Court


lions instltuting suits I'm the district court
were filed in the clerks office yesterday.
At 5 O'Clock the number was nearly
thirty and attorneys were sull hurrying
to get others in. 1t was the last day
Of filing for the October term. A ma
jority of the suits were for damages
which constitute more than one-half Of
the regular court business and Its heavy
expense to the Taxpayers. None OF the
suits was Of great Importance. The d.
vorce docket was increased by about the
average number of new cases.
Joe Kamm asks 81 800 damages from
William Roper, whose automobile, driven
rapidly down North Sixth street at dawn,
on the morning of August 70, struck
Kamm's buggy at the MINISTER street in
tersection, smashed 1t and painfully hurt
him.
l.. Il. wasser brings a suit against
NJ II. and Cora Sherman, owners of the
old Aylesworth fruit farm, on East
Broadway, to recover balance OF SiSO'S'
alleged TO be due as wages from August
10, 1910. 20 July Z, 1911, in accordance with
verbal contract TO give Wasser and his
wife so a month, he 10 work on the farm
and she in the house. Credits of only
7s5 are mentioned.
r. II. Emery sues Floyd Jones, owner
Of q local automobile delivery, for $500
on account Of alleged damages sustained
on October 2, when buggy in which he
was riding was hit by a machine driven
| by young jones.
| The Iowa Fruit and Produce company
sues the street railway company, claim
ing $500 damages for injuries to a wagon
and valuable horse, when the wheel OF
the vehicle stuck in a track at the east
approach OF the river bridge, on June g.
| Peter Nelson and Jens Larsen want
$40 damages from G.. e. Ellsworth, Tor
alleged trespass of the Ellsworth dairy
stock on field crops, cultivated in the vi
entity of the dairy in the southwest
part of the city.
| l.. c. Besley asks 5000 damages from
the street railway. company for re-
! inarkabe condition which, he alleges, eX-
listed at Manawa, when a dam constructed
| by the company to raise the level OF the
water in the lake, injured a large tract
of agricultural land by causing an over
flow of water. 1t is not asserted, how
ever. that the injury was inflicted in the
| drouthy summer of 1911.
remarkable suit is filed by e.
| II. Richards against George p. Colon.
lie alleges that on March IS, 1910, that
Colon, confederating with Robert Brown
Edward Dawson and others, got him
drunk and induced him to buy pre-
tended interest in a pretended Council
Bluffs saloon and to sign a note for
81, 500 secured by mortgage on a good
Iowa farm located near this city. He
also alleges that during the first five
months of 1910 they secured from him
S. 200 in cash. He asks judgment
against them for 81 700 and cancellation
Of the mortgage.
A suit is brought by ]. d. West against
Merritt Ellis and Fred Brown for 1885,
commission due from the sale of $l8,-
600 stock of shoes in Council Bluffs.
H. r. wygert sues o. c. Grown for
$50. alleging that he ran into, with his
automobile, and smashed an autocycls
which he left standing at the street
curb.
A damage suit wherein $500 is claimed
for personal injuries was instituted by
C. e. Venard against Winfield V. Mayne
son of Harley MGyne. 1t is alleged that
Mayne was driving an automobile on
the roadway north of the city on Aug
|
wagon driven by Venard struck it from
the rear, overturned it and painfully
hurt Mrs. Venard and her sister. Mrs.
sadie Sage, and his nephew, Joe Dc
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Among the batch OF divorce suits Is
that of Caroline Alice Hauser against
William Hauser; They were wed in
IOmaha September p, 1902 She alleges
cruelty and asks for the custody OF
their child and title TO the homestead
property with all of its contents located
at GID Oakland Drive. She also says he
has property located at 1904 West Broad
way and other investments which should
be equltably divided.
Kjerstlne Jensen married Jens Marius
Jensen in far away Denmark on April
1. 1893, and came with him to this coun-
try She lived with him until Septem-
her S, this year when she says she was
obliged to leave on accounty of cruelty
\ She wants the custody of three minor
children and such other relief as the
court may give Estella May Allen
seeks divorce from Henry Allen on the
| grounds OF cruelty. They were wed In
Council Bluffs on date left blank and
| separated on September TO- 1911.
Two damage suits against the street
railway company are brought by the
father Of Clara and Hattie Jacobson foi
injuries alleged to have been sustained
by the children while changing from the
Manawa car to the North Eighth street
car. Small amounts are asked, $500 IN
one case and $3.50 in the other.