Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-02-05
SEEKS $4,000
IN DAMAGE SUIT
A. w. MADDY ASKS JUDGMENT OF
WAPELLo COUNTY FOR AL.
LEGGED INJURIES.
CASE is REASSIGNED
Winner Trial to be Taken
Up Again In Court on
February 16.

The case of A. w. Maddy VS.. Wap
clio county was begun in this morn
ing's session Of district court. Mr.
Maddy claims from the county the sum
of 100000 for personal injuries receiv'
ed by him from the alleged detection
In county bridge.
A petition which was filed on No
venber Is, 1912 states that on Novem'
Der IA, 1912, the plaintiff was driving
along the road known as the keb road
count of defect in the approach to
q county bridge on that road he states
that he was thrown from a vehicle
and injured about the head and shout
ders and asks $4,000 damages. He has
now filed an amendment to his original
petition. In this Mr.. Maddy states
that since the filing of his first petit
ton he has found that his injuries are
of much more permanent nature than
he at first thought. He claims that
when he was thrown out Of the convey
ance he received deep depression in
his skull and that this has not only
affected his general nervous system
and his locomotion but has even affec-
ted his brain so that he can not remem-
Der. He now asks $4,000 in addition
to his original claim making in all
$4,000 against Wapello county.
In an answer filed by the county at
torney all of the claims and statements
are denied. A denial is made that
proper notice of the claim has ever
been served upon the board of super.
visors and that any proper claim has
ever been refused payment by the
board.
The empanelling Of the jury was fin
ished this morning in the Maddy case
and the first witnesses were heard this
afternoon. The jury for the case is
George Sauer, Joe Genochio. John Kos
man, George Beall E. r. Sickel, O. K.
Vass, w. Abraham, Dan Riggles, Roy
Anawalt. John Hoose, John j. Ford,
and Leonard Nelson.
Case ReAssigned.
In the Hawthorne-Winner case the
jury was dismissed Monday afternoon
and the case reassigned for Monday
February 16. This was case in which
judgment was asked for the sum of
$1OS which was claimed to be the
amount due for the services of breed
ing horses owned by the plaintiff.
In case of Bridget Travis ct al VS. In
dependent school district of Bear creek
the motion of the defendant for more
specific statement was overruled and
the defendant given until the sixth
Monday to plead. This Is case that
has grown out of an Injunction asking
for the restraining of the levying of
tax alleged to have been voted on Aug
ust 6, 1913 for school bonds. The in
junction also seeks to enjoin any &C
tion taken toward the selling or dis
posing of these bonds for school pur-
poses.
Judge D. NJ. Anderson signed an or
der Monday for the commitment OF
Frank Young to the state industrial
school for boys at Eldora. The lad is
only seven years old but is pronounced
incorrigible by his father Jesse Young
who filed the information against the
youngster.
An order has been signed in court
for citation upon John T. McCune as
administrator of the estate of Mary
McCune 1t is claimed by Mrs. Lewis
c. McCune and Lettie NJ. Porter that
the administrator has failed to act in
accordance with an order signed by
Judge Hunter on July II. 1913. This
order provided for the payment of a
legacy to the plaintiffs which by the
will Of Mary McCune was left to Lewis
C. McCune but which he had in turn
assigned part to his wife and part to
Lettie M. Porter.