Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-05-12
MRS. BROWN AWARDED s4e5.
Marlboro Woman Sued Husband S
Father for Pay for Services-$15,-
600 Suit Against Last Block Co.


L. Brown of Marlboro against her ia
ther-in-law, Albert g. Brown of that
town, for pay at the rate of $3.50 a
week for services rendered him for a
period of between nine and 10 years,
returned a verdict Monday after
noon for $4G4.75 after being out about
an hour.
She testified that she had an agree
ment with her fatherinlaw by which
she was to help with the homework in
his part of the double house in which
she lived with her husband, Ernest
Brown, and that her father-inlaw was
to pay her q reasonable amount for her
work. This, she said, had never been
paid her and she considered that 50 30
week for such time as she worked
for him, was reasonable pay. A di-
vorce suit she has brought is on the
calendar for this term of court.
The plaintiffs witnesses were Rev.
II. II. Shaw, E. p Adams and Green
Worden. The defendant s witnesses
were his son, Ernest Brown, husband
of the plaintiff, Hugh Luce, Charles
Worden, Walter Thayer and Walter
Snow. The parties also testified. All the
witnesses were from Marlboro.
Attorney f. L. Barber made the
opening and closing arguments for the
plaintiff and Attorneys f. w. Gibson
and w. r. Daley argued for the de-
PENDANT.
The case now in hearing is that of
Affra II. Ryder of Brattleboro against
the Vermont Last Block Co., also of
Brattleboro. He seeks to recover $15.-
600 for injuries received while in the
employ of the company Feb. f. 1914.
The plaintiff claims that he was pass
| ing q conveyor which was in defective
condition and that a heavy block of
wood fell off and hit him on the head
causing injuries from which he has
never fully recovered.
He was under the care for some time
of DR.. T.. X. Lynch and later went to
Springfield, where he was operated up
on by DR.. Walter Weiser A part OF
his skull was removed and an abscess
found on the inner plate of the skull
which pressed against his brain.
The abscess was removed and the
part of the skull which had been re.
moved was replaced and wired into pc.
sition with silver. Before the opera.
ton the plaintiff had suffered severe
pains and frequent bleeding at the
nose, and while he was relieved in a
measure by the operation he had not
been able to do any work since the
accident.
DIR. E. r. Lynch and DR.. Byron E
White, who attended Ryder when he
was injured in 1914, testified as to the
extent of the injuries.
Mrs. Ryder told of her husband be
ing brought home injured and of his
attempting to work after the accident
before going to the hospital in Spring
field, Mass, for an operation. She told
of breaking up housekeeping and sell
| ing the furniture because of the finan-
cial condition of the family and of
their five children. Two of them are
married and the other three are aged
| IA, - and s respectively
The defense was begun Wednesday
afternoon.
The defense set up that the convey
or. which was alleged to be defective
by the plaintiff, was in perfect condi-
ton. c. L. Wyman, who was foreman
of the plant at the time of the accident,
and B. F. Palmer, the present foreman
and at the time of the accident an en-
ploye, both testified that there was
nothing wrong with the machine from
which q heavy block of wood is alleged
by the plaintiff to have fallen and hit
him on the head, badly iniuring him.
Mr.. Wyman further testified that af-
ter the accident he helped take the
plaintiff to the Office and dress his
mi Jury and that while there the plaintiff
told him that it was the plaintiff S own
fault because he passed too near the
spout and was hit by the block of
wood when it came out.
Palmer, too, helped dress the wound
ed man and afterwards went to the
conveyor and inspected it and found
nothing defective. The bookkeeper of
the company testified that he telephoned
for the physician and that some days
later, when Ryder came back to work,
Ryder told him the accident was his
own fault for he got too near the spout.
+. II. Sanford, manager of the Last
Block Co. 5 plant and an official of the
company, was on the stand briefly We'd
nesday afternoon to testify as to the
company, its officers and employees.
Some of the arguments were made
yesterday. The Others will be made
this morning and the jury probably will
get the ease this forenoon. Attorneys
+. f. Barber and Harrie b. Chase are
counsel for Ryder, and the defendant
is represented by Gleason & Wilcox of
Montpelier.