The Penn's Grove record., 1923-12-28
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Jury Fails To Reach Agreement
In Charges Brought BY
Young Farmer

What was termed a strong case
was begun last Thursday in the Salem
County Circuit Court before judge
.Ralph Donges and did not end until
Monday at 1890 of this week.
The suit was that of Alfred M.
Lawrence, young farmer of Shirley,
who on November II, 1921, visited the
Garden State Fair grounds, in Bridge
ton, to witness the automobile races
While one of the racing cars was
going around the track, a wheel came
off, going thru the fence, striking
Lawrence and breaking his leg be-
tween the knee and hip. He was taken
to the Bridgeton Hospital and DR.. J.
Franklin Reeves, whom Lawrence
knew and who was on the Hospital
Medical Staff, was summoned.
When DR.. Reeves arrived on the
scene he made an examination and
suggested to Lawrence that DR.. Wal
ter P. Glendon, one of the Surgical
Staff, be summoned, as he thought an
operation necessary. Upon his arr3-
val DR.. Glendon was given charge
and an open operation decided upon.
The leg was cut open and the broken
bones were pried together, end to end,
hole drilled and a screw put thru
to keep them in place. The incision
was then drawn together and sewed
up and in the course of the usual time
Lawrence was dismissed from the
hospital Later he discarded crutches
and still later discarded his cane He
afterwards paid his Doctors bill and
everything was thought to be all
right. In about Ii months, however,
above and below the wound assesses
formed. DR.. Halsey A. Bramble, of
Elmer, the family physician, was
called and opened them and they re-
fused to heal.
Mrs. Nettie Lawrence, mother of
the plaintiff, who was nursing her
son, saw what appeared to be fabric
or dead flesh protruding from the ab-
scess. She took some absorbing cot
ton and pulled a piece of Fauze IS
inches long therefroTa and later, from
time To time. took ravelings from each
of the incisions.
Walter D. Lawrence. father of the
plaintiff, notified the doctors at the
hospital Of the condition Of his son
and that DR.. Bramble had been in at
tendance.
Lawrence then employed Attorney
Carl Kisselman. of Camden. to bring
suit against the two doctors. Eissel-
man was assisted by Senator Albert
6 Woodruff, Of Camden.
The attorneys for the defendants
We're former Judge lie Roy W Loder,
of Bridgeton, and J. FOrman Sinnick-
son, of Salem. Lawrence asked dam
ages, charging the two doctors with
negligence and carelessness. After
deliberating until $50 P. NJ. the Jury
was unable to agree and so notified
County Clerk Walter P. Balinger,
who took their verdict and they were
subsequently dismissed.
A case that caused considerable
merriment was that brought by Harry
Ballinger, of Pedricktown, against
John Jacobsen, Justice of the Peace,
of the same place, to recover the sum
of $500 with interest from 1921.
Daniel " Summerill, Jr., was coun-
sci for the plaintiff and William B.
Surran for the defense.
The case took about an hour includ-
ing the ten minutes that the jury was
out, when they returned verdict in
favor of the full amount for the plain
tiff, which mounted to s375.55.
Court convened again this Friday
morning.