Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-10-22
Council Bluffs
Host of Lawsuits
Get Under the Wire
in District Court

Pretty nearly a record number or petit
lions instltutng suits in the district court
were filed in the clerks office yesterday
At O'Clock the number was nearly
! thirty and attorneys were still 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 It's 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 $500 damages from
William Roper, whose automobile, driven
rapidly down North Sixth street at dawn,
on the morning Of August y, struck
lamms buggy at the MINISTER street in
tersection, smashed it and painfully hurt
him.
| T. E. wasser brings a suit against
NJ. IL. and Cora Sherman, owners of the
old Aylesworth fruit farm, on East
/ Broadway to recover balance of siS6'OS'
alleged to be due as wages from August
10, 1910. to July Z. 1911, in accordance with
a verbal contract to give Wasser and his
wife $50 a month, he TO work on the farm
and she in the house. Credits of only
S37. % are mentioned.
r.. II. Emery sues Floyd Jones, owner
Of O local automobile delivery, for $500
on account Of alleged damages sustained
on October 2, when a buggy in which he
was riding was hit by machine driven
by young jones.
! The Iowa Fruit and Produce company
| sues the street railway company, claim
ing $500 damages for injuries to wagon
and valuable horse, when the wheel OF
the vehicle stuck in track at the east
approach of the river bridge on June g.
Peter Nelson and Jens Larsen want
$3.50 damages from G. Il. Ellsworth, Tor
alleged trespass of the Ellsworth dairy
stock on field crops, cultivated in the vi
cinity Of the dairy in the southwest
part of the city.
l.. c. Besley asks 5000 damages from
the street railway. company for re-
markable condition which, he alleges' eX-
listed at Manawa, when 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 now
ever, that the injury was inflicted In the
drouthy summer of lsn
A 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 note for
"a, 800 secured by mortgage on 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 700 and cancellation
Of the mortgage.
A suit is brought by j. ID. West against
Merritt Ellis and Fred Brown for $3.50
commission due from the sale of $lS,-
600 stock of shoes in Council Bluffs.
H. r. wygert sues o., c. Grown for
$3.50, alleging that he ran into, with his
automobile, and smashed an autocycle
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 " Mayne,
son of Harley MGyne. 1t is alleged that
Mayne was driving an automobile on
the roadway north of the city on Aug
ust 81 and in attempting to pass the
wagon driven by Venard struck 1t from
the rear, overturned it and painfully
hurt Mrs. Venard and her sister, Mrs.
b Sadie Sage, and his nephew Joe DE
We're
Among the batch of divorce suits Is
that Of Caroline Alice Hauser against
William Hauser; They were wed in
Iomaha September p, 1909, She alleges
cruelty and asks for the custody Of
their child and title to the homestead
property with all of it's contents, located
at 6lD Oakland Drive. She also says he
has property located at 2S04 West Broad
way and other investments which should
be equitably divided
| Kierstine Jensen married Jens Marius
Jensen in far away Denmark on April
1. 1888, and came with him to this coun-
try, She lived with him until Septem-
Der s. this year when she says she was
Obliged 10 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 10, 1911.
Two damage suits against the street
railway company are brought by the
father of Clara and Hattie jacobson for
Injuries alleged to have been sustained
Manawa car to the North Eighth street
car. Small amounts are asked, $500 in
one case and $3.50 In the other.