The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1914-02-13
Heart Of Her Husband
Taken From Its Body
rrom Saturdays Daily.

~EoUi SdtuEudJS Oaiiy.
That he conferred an unquestion.
able benefit and is rewarded for IL
with lawsuit brought against him BY
the beneficiary is the position taken by
DIR j. w. Andrews i'm his answer TO
an action for damages i'm the sum
Of $4,000, instituted by Mrs. Eliza
beth Fallenstein. widow of the late
Michael FallenStein.
The suit is unique one. Mrs.
Fallenstein accuses the doctor of
having removed from the dead body
OF her husband the heart and part
Of one lung and retained them for
three months and one week and
says that therefore ''the plaintiff
has suffered great pain Of mind and
become and will be fer a long time
terribly shocked and frcm such
shock and the consequences thereof
she has for n long time and will con
tinue to suffer great pain OF body
and mind to her damage in the sum
u s10.01n."
Claims He was Authorized.
The doctor admits that he took
and retained the heart and part of
a lung of tho body OF the woman's
husband. but declares that he was
Guly authorized TO do so and his
Gcts were fer the benefit of the
plaintiff.
Tho defense will rest mainly on
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for the preservation Of the heart
w u. Andrews, the facts that wee
shown CnaLling the woman 10 collect
the insurance money on policy on
her husbands life would have been
lost, and she would never have been
EbIe to get the money.
II. I. Park OF Minneapolis Is
attorney for the plaintiff and S. b.
Wilson o: Mankato for the defend
ant
Michael Fallenstein. Il will be re-
nemberod, took part in fighting the
firH that occurred at the City hotel
last April. lie inhaled smoke and
gases and died not long after the
Ere. He carried an accident I'm.
'hrTGce policy with the Employers
Liability Assurance company
Limited. of London. England. The
company hesitated about paying the
death claim, holding that the In,
sured might have died from natural
causes. The death certificate issued
by DR.. J. A. Hielscher was the
Easis az this position.
Pest Mcrtem was Held
\ post norton examination was
held by Drs. J. w. Andrews, J. A.
Iielscher and J. s. Hnibrook The
body w2s opened and II was found
that there. was some dilatation OF
The heart, as the original certificate
stated. but the inhalation of smoke
WINS also included as cause for
ieath.
still the Insurance company did
rot pay. Attorneys prau aud Lau
risch were engaged 10 collect thu
insurance for Mrs Fallcnstein They
called FRS. 4. =. schmidt and C.
Pratt IN consultation. These physi
clans obtained the heart from DR.
Andrews laboratory, where 1t was
preserved and made an examination
They concluded that death was due
To inhaling smoke and poisonous
gases. On the strength Of their re-
pert the company paid the claim,
end the widow collected SLIGO.
Or. Andrews turned over the heart
end portion of lung to the widows
son, Ernest Fallenstein. and they
were repIa I'D With the body.
The de; use will contend that II
the heart had been buried with the
rcst OF T. body, when that was
placed In the ground. the orga'
would have hecomc SO badly dccom
posed thu: the second examination
would have been impossible.
The defendant I'm his answc;
makes no counterclaim, except for
his costs and disbursements in the
action.
Minneapolis, February Two
men. each trembling with excitement
stood up in the meeting OF the
Farmers Grain Dealers association
yesterday ut the West hotel and
faced each other, and every dele
gate expected fight when President
NJ. Z. Meisch declared that he would
not permit 4. ID. Stewart of Red
wood Falls to speak and that h.
would have him forcibly restrained
IL he persisted.
II am member OF this organiza
tion and have a right to be heard,
Mr.. Stewart shouted. George s. LOT
tus and dozen men OF the Equit,
exchange crowd had entered AMI
taken seats in the hall II was known
In the hall that Mr.. Stewart wcult
move that Mr.. LOTUS be heard. Blu
he got no chance to make the mo
ton
Ordered to Sit Down.
Mr.. Chairman''-began MIR. Stew
art, as soon as r. ID. Wilson OF tn,
extension department OF the stat,
agricultural college who was speakin,
had said his last Rord.
Mr.. Meisch sprang out OF hi:
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