Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-07-07
Ways or ROB- /
BING THE PUBLIC
Methods Employed In Fake Dam.
age Suits. One Tried in Oklaho'
ma City Resulted in Arrest of tho
Plaintiff.

tAAt OuiNNs ONt ATAtN ~ OhAshAAVr
ma City Resulted in Arrest of the
Plaintiff.
There was recently tried in the
district court at Oklahoma City one
of the kind of cases that helps to put
the railroads of the South in receiv-
er'shands and that is proving so ex-
pensive for the communities where
such cases are brought.
This case lasted three days. and its
defense by the railroad company cali
cd for number Of professional men
at a high cost for their time, as wei
as large number of railroad and
other business people who were
obliged to attend
The plaintiff. Hearl Hayden, claim
ed to have caught her heel on the
platform or top step of passenger
coach while allghting from a Katy
passenger train at Oklahoma City, on
the night of July 1S, 1915.
Plaintiff claimed to have been
bruised and severely injured in her
back and kidneys and internally by
said fall; that her appendix was
bruised and rendered sore, and her
side was bruised and made sore. and
by reason of said internal injuries
this plaintiff has vomited almost con
stantly since said injuries, and her
Temperature has been beyond normal
and is still above normal; that she
has some arrangement of the bladder
and alleges that she has some inter
nal rupture, the character of which
she is not able to state, resulting
from said injuries; that since said in
juries and additional doctors bill;
as formerly, and her neck has become
land slider oainsbrdlshrdlum
stiff and swollen, and her abdomen
and side have become dfstended and
swollen and very sore: chat by reason
of said injuries she has incurred q
Reasonable and necessary doctors
bill in the sum of fifty dollars. and
she will incur by reason of said in
juries an additional doctors bill;
that she has become permanently in
jured and has suffered great pain anC
mental anguish on account of saiC
Injuries. and will continue to suffel
the rest OF her life; that she is mar
ried woman. and by reason of her in
iuries she has been disabled from do
ing her household duties; that pgiO
to said injuries she was able IA eari
fifty dollars per month az Rousemai
or housekeeper, bgt on account o
said injuries ghe Will never be able t
z learn any amount again; that she |
21 years of age, and was of goo
health prior to said injuries, and o
: Iaccount of negligence of defendant
las aforesaid, she will be damaged !
the sum Of ten thousand dollars, 10
IAN of which the defendants have be
tcome liable"
If the allegations above cited wer
true, the plaintiff must have suffere
terribly from these various and sur
dry injuries. but did she?
The evidence at the trial shove
that she was taken to roomin
house and, according TO her deares
friend, she had large discolore
lbruise on her back that was bathe
and cared for by her for about thre
weeks, during which time she wa
Iconfined TO her bed. The doctor
however, was only able to find
slight redness, and complaints c
relative of the plaintiff testifie
that Mrs. Hayden would get up an
go about the room when the doc
was locked, and get back in be
when anyone knocked, before admit
ting them. 1t was also. shown tina
Mrs. Hayden moved TO another locf
ton and had to be helped up stail
by two people but that in a few nil
utes afterwards she ran up and dow
the stairs several times unassisted
answer the telephone. At this plaC
she was requested 10 leave, on a.
lcount of her conduct, and she Their
upon took up her residence at anotl
er hotel with man named Dean.
II seems that Mrs. Hayden ha
lived with a friend of this man an
his wife, and that both men had ha
Ipersonal injury suits against raj
roads and that Dean and anoth'
lover named Jordan, planned wit
her. to have another accident, whci
was pulled off on the Fort Worth
Denver City Railway at Wichita Fal
October 20, 1915, at which time 81
fell in precisely the same way, pul
ing off heel that had been pre-
iously unloosened by her confede
ates,