The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-31
Morris Hastings Wants Damages from
8. r. Fuller, Action Growing Out
OF Automobile Accident
Last Winter.
DIVORCE ACTION FILED
Julia n. Sinnett is Asking for Decree
AnnuIIins Marriage to Samuel
Sinnett--Notes and Money
Involved in Another.

Suits have been filed today in the
clerks office at the Lee county court
house in which Judgment is asked on
promissory notes alleged to be due
and for damages, the total judgments
amounting TO 50 600. One of the suits
makes B. E. Fuller defendant, and
grows out of the accident and alter
cation which followed on South Third
street last December, 4 divorce suit
has been filed, also, by Julia 81. Sin
nett
For injuries to Ibis person and
character" and for punitive dam
ages" alleged to have been received
from the hands OF the defendant on
December rs. 1919, when plaintiff was
standing ON Third street between
Main and Johnson, the plaintiff,
Morris Hastings, has brought suit
against the defendant, B. E. Fuller
for the SUM of s2,999.
Petition states that the plaintiff
was assaulted by the defendant on
December rs, who beat him with his
hands. causing his face to bleed, and
cursed him, bringing hiw into public
ridicule and causing him great men
tai anguish and pain.
Fuller is defendant In second
suit in which Morris Hastings is In.
yolved, with the Continental Auto
Insurance company as plaintiff The
other defendant in this case is Bar
ney McNally. Plaintiff asks judg- |
ment against the defendants for the !
sum OF Sis, the alleged amount of
damages which the defendants in
flicted upon Ford car Of the plain |
tiff's which was standing in front OF !
q restaurant on South Third street |
one day in December when the de- |
PENDANTS ran into the machine with |
a car which Fuller was driving.
Earl Mckee is plaintiff against the !
Iagomarcino-Grupe company in a
damage suit In which ne asks the !
court for 81 900 for injuries to him
self and the roadster in which he
was riding ON Main street between |
Tenth and Eleventh streets Decem- |
her u, when an employe OF the de- |
PENDANTS ran into the roadster with |
a truck which the employee was driT-
ing.
Mrs. Sinnett Asks Divorce.
A petition for divorce on the !
grounds Of desertion has been filed |
by Julia H Sinnett against Samuel !
T. Sinnett. Plaintiff asks for an alb.
solnte divorce and prays the court to
quiet all her rights to the property I
which she possessed in her own name
before she was married and all OF
that which she has acquired in her
own name since her marriage, against
al! rights and claims Of the defend
ant.
Plaintiff and defendant we're mar
RED at Los Angeles, Calf, in March,
1915. This is the second suit filed
BIZ the pIafnti. for a divorce, the
ffrst not having been granted Plain
tiff asks the court in this petition to
restore 10 her her maiden name OF
Julia Alexander. +
Much Money - Involved.
n. 3. Beaty and j. ". Sundeen
n 81 are plaintiffs against George
NeCarty, Daniel McCarty, L. a Mise
b and W. II. ButIln in petition in
which the defendant, George Nc
-arty. ig sued for 81 ,89S. SO. with in
.erest and attorneys fees, and the
plaintiffs pray that Judgment be de-
CARED TO be a lien and charge
against the funds Of George McCarty
ROW in the hands Of the other defend
ants.
This suit contains five counts the
first four dealing with promissory
notes given by George McCarty TO the
Argyle Savings bank and c. ".
Marsh and later transferred 70 the
plaintiffs. These notes are said to
De due and wholly unpaid. The fifth
count alleges that George McCarty
gave deed OF trust and bin Of sale
% other defendants OF all his real.
personal and mixed property, the
Iced providing for it to be sold and
he proceeds to apply on the debts
If George McCarty. Plaintiffs allegc
hat the defendants now have in
their possession a large sum OF
money from this bill OF sale.