Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-28
SUPERIOR COURT

In the two cases tried together, COM
menced yesterday, Alex. Bilodeau vs..
Narragansett Mutual Fire ms Co., ana
Clottie Bilodeau vs. Dirigo Mutual Fire
ms. Co., where the payment of insurance
on farm buildings and personal properly
is contested. the plaintiff Alex. Bilodeau
was on the stand for a short time THIS
forenoon. Thomas F. Millett of Gorham
secretary and treasurer of the insurance
companies, was on the stand for some
time. He stated that the policy in one
case had not been paid for, and in the
other case the last assessment had not
been paid. He produced the books of the
company and a good deal of time was
consumed in their examination.
The jury retired to consider the evil
dence at 4.30 this afternoon. They re-
turned a verdict for Alex. Bilodeau in the
sum Of $3.50.
The next case was No. s91. Frank
court and DR.. Percy S. Merrill. both of
Waterville. Johnson and Perkins and
Butler and Butler for plaintiff and Eat
on and Deane and Pattangall and Plum
stead for defendants. Plaintiff asked
TO recover $4,000 for the loss of his left
leg. which has been amputated close
to the body. Mr.. Perkins opened the
case for the plaintiff
Byron Boyd of Augusta then took
the stand. He said the plaintiff had
been employed by his firm. Boyd and
Harvey, in the woods the winter of
1856. and they considered him a first
class workman He told about tbe ex-
ira time plaintiff put in that winter.
the amount of his earnings, etc. and
that at the time of his injury they ex-
pected him to return to their employ.
The plaintiff took the stand and told
the story of his accident and the out
come of it. He said he had worked as
a carpenter for 20 years. He was on
the sidewalk down near the bridge Sun
day. March -, between s and half past
2 in the morning. There was ice on
the sidewalk, and he said he stepped on
1t before he noticed it. In trying to get
off he went down and broke his left leg
about five inches above the ankle. He
was taken to the house of a friend
nearby. and a doctor was sent for. Dr.
Rancourt. one of the defendants. was
finally brought in, looked at the leg and
then went out for assistance. He re-
turned with DR.. Merrill. the other de-
PENDANT.
Plaintiff said he was etherized and when
he woke up his leg was in a plaster cast.
The cast covered he said. from just a
little below his knee to the middle of his
foot. A little later he said he was taken
home in an automobile The next morn-
ing. he said, DR.. Rancourt came to see
him and gave him an injection of NOR
ph!ne in his left arm. At that time, he
said. he told the doctor that his foot was
paining him very badly and that he had
not slept during the night. He said his
toes were swollen very badly at the tiWe
the doctor was there. The big toe looked
to him to be twice it's natural size and
felt as though 1t would burst. The doc
tor came again Tuesday morning and
either that morning Wednesday Dr.
Merrill came with Lin. When they came
together he said. they cut a little "
shaped piece out of the cast on the instep
The next day. he said. there was a big
blister Oh his big toe and it looked pur-
pie. Then there las blister on the to.
Of his foot between the cast and his toes
He said DR.. Merrill cleaned off that Bills
ter and wiped it with piece of dry cloth
He told them at that time that he was
suffering awfully and they gave him an
other injection of morphine. He said Dr.
Rancourt came every day, but DR.. Mer-
rill did not come again until Friday,
-
up front of the leg and took it off. ex-
amined the leg, put in some sheet
"wadding," the plaintiff called it. then
sprung the cast back on the leg. He
said he saw his leg then and 1t looked
fine except the foot where the blisters
had been. From the toes to the cast
he said it had begun to matterate a
littl then. He said the cast was not
touched again until the day he went
to the hospital He said nothing more
was done to his leg except to wash
1t. There began to be bad odor from
the foot and plaintiff sent his wife to
see DR.. Merrill about it. On Friday of
the second week DR.. Rancourt came,
and after getting a look at the leg un-
der the cast and finding 1t black, he
went off and brought DR.. Merrill. At
ter they had examined the leg he said
Dr. Merrill told him the leg was little
gangrenous. and he would have to go
to a hospital and would probably lose
his leg and perhaps his life. They sug-
gested his going to the Sisters hos
pital in Waterviile, but he refused,
sent for Mr.. Purinton, and he took
him to Bangor to the Eastern Maine
General hospital, where his leg was
amputated.
Court comes in at $50 tomorrow