Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-01-12
SUPERIOR COURT
Case of Rose CarOn VS.. the L. A.
& w. Street Railway Opened
and Will Be Completed at
Today's Session

The trial of civil cases before the
superior court was begun Thursday
morning, the first in order being that
of Rose Caron of Winthrop VS.. the
Lewiston, Augusta & Waterville Street
Railway. This is a personal damage ac-
ton, in which plaintiff seeks to recov-
er for injuries received in a collision
between two cars of the defendant
corporation on Oct. II, 1915, on the
winthrop line at Martins crossing.
Damages of $4,000 are claimed. The
liability in the case is admitted by the
defendant corporation and the ques-
ton Is as to the amount of damages.
B. f. 'Maher and James l.. Boyle are
attorneys for the plaintiff and John E.
Nelson of the law firm of Andrews &
| Nelson is counsel for the defendant
corporation.
| Seventeen witnesses were sworn in
for the plaintiff Physicians testi-
mony took up large portion Of the
day, a number of the physicians being
from out Of the city. With the excep-
ton Of the testimony of a single wit
ness the plaintiffs evidence was put in
Thursday and the case will be resumed
at the opening of today's session.
Plaintiff on Stand
| The plaintiff, Mrs. Rose Caron Of
Winthrop Center, testified that she is
widow she had lived in Winthrop 10
years and is As years of age. During
the summer before the accident her
family was made up of II people. who
were at her farm as boarders for three
months. She was doing the cooking.
Her physical condition prior to the ac-
cident was very good and besides do
ing cooking the plaintiff had raked the
| field with horse rake in July of the
year previous. She had never had any
trouble with her knee before the ac-
cident. The veins of her right leg had
showed but had never given her any
trouble, she testified, and it was her
left limb that was injured.
Regarding the collision plaintiff tes-
titled that she took the 1 o'clock car
from Winthrop Center. going to Au-
gusta. The car stopped at Martins and
another car ran into it from the rear.
Witness testified that the frame of the
door of the car crushed into her knee
and that she was sitting on a seat run
ming lengthwise at the right side. At
Augusta the plaintiff went in a team
J 10 ltlEedullS UruS store anu Jnen TO
the Casavant house. Mrs. Casavant
had bathed the limb with alcohol and
warm water In the evening plaintiff
had gone to a hall near the Casavant
house and had remained there at a
card party for about an hour and a
! half. She returned to her home on the
car leaving Augusta at 1890 p. NJ, and
her daughter met her with a team at
the station DR.. Badger of Winthrop
had attended her the following day and
continued to treat the limb a month
and half.
/ Plaintiff testified that she had not
A.! been able to do her houSework since
the collision and she testified of the
help that she has had. She said that
very little of the time since the acct
dent her limb had been free from pain
Plaintiff had already paid out over
5000 and owes other bills now on ac-
count Of the injury. Previous to the in
jury She had been accustomed to go
snowshocing and swimming; since the
accident she had tried swimming but
could not swim on the side the injury
was on.