The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1924-07-03
Monmouth County Courts

MUlllllUulll UUuIlly UUullS
Three money verdict and one Of
mo cause for action" were re-
turned by juries bef' re Judge Peter
+. DAILY and Judge Lawrence ID court
here June 20 1924. The no cause for
action verdict was returned IN the suit
lof Mrs. Pearl Kneip wife of Albert
kneip, "a years, who was killed by a
Pennsylvania railroad train on the
MuDroe avenue, Asbury Park, cross
ing early the evening of February Z
last, when bakery wagon he was
driving was hit. The suit was defend
ed on the ground that the hagman
Isgnalled Kneip to halt and that Kneip
attempted to cross In front Of the train.
! Wills ID. Quackenbush Of Keyport
was awarded Judgment for 81 900 and
| his wife, Marearet p. was awarded
50 800 in an action against Fred G.
Palmer, Jr-. of SO Linbury avenue
Jersey City, for injuries sustained
| by Mrs Quackenbush September 81
last when car driven by Donald
VanBrackle of Keyport crashed into
the rear OF an auto TRUCK owned by
Palmer then standing in the road near
Morgan without lights. The accident
/ n. 7.
Mrs VanBrackle having been sum
moned to the Perth Amboy city hos
pital where their IA year-old son
was reported in dying condition
from an infection resulting from
fractured arm. Mrs. Quackenbush was
thrown from the VanBrackle ear and
her pelvis bone was fractured. She
was placed on the operating table up
on arrival at the hospital and did
not see her son, who died few DAYS
later. Mrs. Quackenbush was confined
to the hospital As daysit was testified.
Harry Sherman and Morris Ba-
danes of Freehold. in a suit for dam
ages resulting from a three-cornered
auto collision on the Long Branch
Eatontown road July 3, 1929, against
Voros, Sherman being awarded $4s9
and Badanes $500.
Giuseppe D'Onfrio of Red Bank
was awarded 800 and his 10-year
-old son, Pasquale was awarded So
800 for injuries sustained by the boy
last Thanksgiving day when hit by
an automobile driven by Edward
Cost of South River Pasquale was
sitting on the curb at Shrewsbury av-
enue and Beech street with a play
mate when the car driven by Colt
was in collision with another auto.
The Colt car swerved to the curb.
and killed the second boy and badly
injured D'ODofrio.
Mrs. Il ellen Petit of Eleventh ae-
enue. Bradley Park, was awarded
$500 Monday by jury at Freehold
in he suit for damages for the death of
her husband, Alvin Petit. The
action was against the Pennsylvania
Railroad company, whose train killed
4 Petit on Christmas eve, 1920. The
case vase tried before Judge Ruff ".
I Lawrence, sitting as circuit Judge.
Judge Ward Kremer of Asbury Park
and Benjamin Weinberg of Newark rep
resented Mrs. Petit, John S. Apologize
of Red Bank appearing for the railroad
company.
Alvin Petit was formerly an en-
lploye of the Green-H agerman Lumber
company. At about $50 in the evening
of the day he was killed he was taking
a struck of the company to the
garage of the lumber company,
which is east of the railroad tracks.
At the crossing he was run down by a
special train running back from
Point Pleasant to New York and
killed instantly. The train had only
one lighted coach, the rear, in which
the crew were making up their ac-
counts from the run south from New
York.
Nathan Farber, fireman on the train
testified Monday that he first saw
Petit abopt10 feet from the crossing.
He swofe that the statutory
whistle was blown when the
J train passed the Ocean Grove water
~ 81 Il
in Bradley Beach, about 900
feet south OF the crossing. Raymond
Whitlock and George Farley conductor
that they were in the rear car
doing clerical work when they heard
the whsle. They both claimed that
on the third or fourth blast they felt
the emergency brakes suddenly APP
piled.
Mrs. Petit and her brother Irving
Lewis related how they were waiting
in the kitchen of the Petit home foI
the return of Alvin Petit on the
night of the accident, when they were
expecting him to come to his dinner
The widow stated that she looked out
of the window as she saw the dark
show of the train pass north but that
no wistle or bell sounded. Irving and
his brother, Leroy Lewis, both
corroborated this story. Ira Boyce
police officer of Neptune township
and Mrs Mildred Osborne of Stokes
avenue. Bradley Park were both sworn
in behalf If the plaintiff. They stated
that they saw the train on the night OF
the accident after it had stopped II
had partly passed the Corlies avenue
crossing before it came to a full
stop.
Petit was 90 years cid at the time oil
his death. Besides his widow he left
two small children.
-
Ioxaou Arnloa Tall, 10.