Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-17
AVERAGE OF ONE AN HOUR DUR.
ING LAST TWENTY.FouR
HOURS OF FILING.
CITY IS DEFENDANT IN
FIVE OF THE ACTIONS
Suits Over Alleged Storm Sewer Dam.
age to First Ward Property Owners
Arc Inc'uded-severai Damage Suits
Started Against Railroads = Mrs.
Sanderson Wants $4,000.

preceding the close Of Friday the las,
day of filing for the August term of the
| district court. The city is made de"
ifendant in five suits, brought by First
ward property owners, who alleys
damages on account of sanitary sew
er flooding their premises.
!; Four of the suits are against the
Standard Stores Company and the A
| Z. Shorthill Company is made defend
ant in four other cases. Three other
actions are for divorce.
Sue City for $1,000.
The property owners of the First
ward. who have brought suit against
the city are W. H. Johnson, G. E. Will
hanson, Annie Peterson, Adeline Wilk-
inson and Christine Peterson. They
| live on Third and Fourth avenues and
each wants damages for $3.50. The cases
are Identical The allegations in each is
that the city's storm sewer serving
that section Of the city became dam
! aged to such an extent that surface
| water flooded the premises OF the sew
eral homes. and later, when the city
| turned the surface water into the SAM
| tary sewer, the latter flooded the cell
| lars.
File Suits for Merchandise.
The suits brought against the
Standard Stores Company, Of this city,
are all actions to collect for merchan-
disc and fixtures for the store. The
plaintiffs and the amount of Judgment
each asks are as follows American
Lady Corset Company. ssos.1o; Blum
enfield. Locher and Brown Company,
| Milwaukee. s17s; The Crown Yelling
Company, New York. $15655: the
Quincy Show Case Works, Quincy, Ill.,,
$114.75
Italian Sues for Injury.
Included in the cases filed against
the A. E. Shorthill Company is one
| brought by Alexander Napale, as the
next friend CT Frank Granato, an 1tal-
Ian. and minor. A claim for $1,000
! FOR personal injury is made, it being
alleged that Granto had his right hand
| crushed when he took hold Of the ele-
vator that was lifting him and a
wheelbarrow load Of coke. The alleRa-
ton is made that the elevator was un-
safe. The company is protected by
indemnity insurance
Inc Marshalltown State Bank has
brought suit against the A. E. Shorthill
company and G. r. Speers asking
Judgment OF $4,000 on a promissorv
note
| The Wisconsin Iron and Wire Works,
OF Milwaukee. Is the plaintiff in suit
for s675.57 against the A. E. Shorthill
Company. It's claim is for ornamental
stairways and ratings furnished on a
contract.
c. c. Woodmansee has sued the
Shorthill Company for $15s.72, alleged
to be due for draying and transfer
| work.
Three Divorce Cases.
Three wives are plaintiffs in suits
for divorces. Mrs. Edna r. Smith
| wants a divorce from Guy R. Smith.
The couple was married here Dec. 6,
| 1911. according to the petition
Mrs. Anna Wescott is the plaintiff in
suit for divorce from Fred G. Wes-
cott They were married in 1903
Mrs. Elizabeth Keefe asks divorce
from James C. Keefe. They were mar
ried March 4. 1909.
Sues Central for $4,000.
Albertina Sanderson, Of Akron, O.,
widow of John Sanderson, who was
run down and killed by an Iowa Cen
trail passenger train, in the east yards
| Oct %. 1911, has filed suit for $4,000
| damages against the Iowa Central and
NJ. r. st. L. railroads. Mrs. Sanderson
! has brought suit as administrative OF
| tn. estate OF her husband. SandeTsoa
| was killed by passenger train No.
while he was walking along the track
| ahead Of the train. The accident hap
pered on the bridge across Linn creek.
/ The petition alleges that the train was
being operated inside the city limits at
an excessive rate of speed, and no at
| tempt was made to slackened the speed
Of the train. altho Sanderson was in
plain view. It is also alleged the
| whistle or bell Of the engine was not
sounded.
Other Cases Filled.
| Sam Bushena, who alleges he was
! injured Sept. 7, 1910, while employed
by the Lennox Furnace Company, has
begun suit against the Great Western
Accident Association, of Des Moines. to
recover $1,010 on an insurance policy
| G. Schneider Of Melbourne, has sued
the Chicago Great Western railway
for $175.56. the alleged loss Of ten hogs
Of q shipment consigned from Mel
bourne to st. Joseph. It is claimed the
railroad allowed the hogs to remain in
the car for thirty consecutive hours
without being watered. and the neglect
caused ten Of them to die.
| W. A. Wickersham has sued the Chi
cago Great Western for $3.50, to re-
cover for the loss Of steer 1t II
claimed a train killed.
| A. II. E. Matthews. az trustee FOL
creditors alleged to have claim Of 49,.
060 against A. e. Ward, has brought
suit against Ward, Mrs. Minnie Ward
and H. r. Long. The petition asks
that the judgment be made lien
against the Ward home. LIZ North
Third street. Mrs Ward and Long arr
made defendants because 1t is alleged
they figure in the transactions by
which the home was acquired in q
trade for the Clifton Hotel building.
Lee r. Sickman and b. r. Carpen-
ter are the plaintiffs in case filed
against D. A. Rudy. E. L. Burkhart,
6. A. Brindis and Charles Marker.
The plaintiffs ailege they were teEants
On the farm Of j. E. Powers. which
was purchased from Rudy, and that
the defendants forcibiy elected them