The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-10

have to be limited. according to w. S.
Hancock commissioner of streets, for
the heavy trucks are injuring the
streets and alleys at the present rate
of speed. The large trucks carry at
least 5000 pounds, he said. The speed
limit change will be suggested in an
ordinance to be presented by Hancock
soon.
Great danger from poor electric
wiring threatens the Shawnee Acounty
court house, according to Thomas w.
Martin, city electrical inspector. If he
had the power he would condemn the
court house, Martin said, for the lives
of the employees and the building are
imperilled by the wiring. 1.-The crimes
tried in the court house are not half
as serious as the crime of negligence
now being committed by the county,
Martin said.
There is on trial today in the dis
: trict court a suit for $3.50 damages,
which has been brought by c. c Nor
ris a fIagman for the Santa Fe, against
H. F. Miller. The plaintiff alleges that
the defendant had stopped his car on
the tracks of the Santa Fe. in response
to the flagman's signal. while one train
was passing. That another train came
from the opposite direction as the mo-
torist waited. and that the latter, mis-
understanding or disregarding the
flagman's signal, drove ahead instead
of backing his car, and ran over the
flagman.
Charles S. Elliott, on trial in the
police court Tuesday for reckless driv-
ing, was dismissed for lack of evidence
when witnesses testified that what Lee
Coberly, taxi driver-policemah said
happened. didn't happen, and that if
it had happened, Elliott couldn't have
caused it. Coberly produced two wit
nesses, Dan Duncan, patrolman, and
H. T. Mayo, another taxicab driver,
neither one of whom saw Elliott back
into a safety zone sign against which
Coberly was leaning, as Coberly
charged. Elliott, H. H. Lewis and w.
w. Eden were at the scene when the
alleged offense was committed. All
three testified that the stand had not
been touched.
Suit brought by the Ben Spler COM
pany of New York against Sam Freid-
berg. a Topeka jeweler. has resulted
in a bareback" verdict in the dis
trict- court against the original plain
tiffs. The suit was brought. for the
collection of an old account of S1O5.
which the petition stated, Freidberg
owed the New York company. In his
counter petition. Freidberg asked for
s195 as the loss which he had sus-
tafned when the New York company
refused to accept $4,000 worth of dia-
monds which he had sold them. The
verdict of a jury in the first division
of the district court gave Freidberg
the S195.
Suit against John Barton Page, des-
ignated agent of the United States
under the transportation act, and
against Jacob Dumler, Jr., the owner
of lap bushels of wheat which were
destroyed by fire starting from
Union Pacific locomotive, has been
filed in the district court by the st.
Paul Fire and Marine Insurance COM
pany. The Insurance company paid
damage claim of $1.564.65 on the
wheat. and is now suing to recover
that amount, plr $1,000 attorneys
fees. and has m" Dumler, who is
Russell county or. defendant in
order that he ma be required to ex-
plain why he refused to sue the gov
eminent for the value of the wheat
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