Evening star., 1937-04-24

with commission file clerk, Mrs. Min
Griffith, chief clerk, from her Office
with a bombardment Of water and
eggs. When she was suspended, she
sought redress by petitioning the high
est authorities for action against
Griffith and Bonner.
IN JULY, 1895, after fighting the case
in the courts for four years, Mrs.
J. Borden Hartman, Minister-desig-
nate to Norway, got judgment for
$3.50 against Joseph P Maher, sub
contractor, whom she charged with
dumping dirt on shrubbery on her
Ridge road property. The dirt came
from an excavation for the home Of
the late Raymond T. Baker, former
director of the mint.
Compensation was obtained by Mrs.
Emma Burris IN the Summer of 1882
for the death of her husband by sun
stroke. Burris died while loading old
curbing into a truck when the tenn
perature was 90 and there was no
shade The Court of Appeals held
that the character of the work was
principally responsible for the stroke
and directed the United States En-
ployes' Compensation Commission to
compensate the widow.
A Judgment of $3.50 was obtained
in May, 1895, by an evicted couple
against United States marshal who
had dispossessed them. The award
was to cover damage by rain to furni-
ture moved out of the couples resi-
dence during dispossession.
Evalyn Walsh Mclean, she of the
Hope diamond, lost, in 1884, dam
age suit brought by Attorney Albert
w. Fox for money he claimed was
due him for services in the divorce
litigation between Mrs Mclean and
Edward B. Mclean, former publisher
of the Washington Post, and in con-
nection with her attempt to ransom
the Lindbergh baby. Mrs Mclean
testified she dismissed Fox after he
had said she was considered men
tally deficient. but the attorney was
awarded $4,000. He asked s22,70O.
A UToMoBILE accidents are, of
course, the chief producers of
damage suits. One Of the biggest
awards made in the past five years
for injuries caused by an automobile
was not, however, in the traffic"
category.
Harrison Herlinger, a young me-
chanic, was working under car in
a garage. A parked salt company
truck, which had been left in re-
verse gear, backed against the ma
chine under which Herlinger was
working, causing it to fall on the
mechanic. Herlinger lost the sight
of one eye and one side of his face
was paralyzed. He obtained a judg-
ment against the salt company for
s32, 500.
One of the motor trips which Presi-
! dent Hoover regularly made to his
Rapidan camp in Virginia gave rise to
| a noteworthy damage suit. Mr.. Hoo
yer liked to be driven rapidly. Fol-
| lowing him was the usual train Of
automobiles bearing Secret Service
men and newspaper correspondents.
Properly to cover their assignment
| the latter had to keep up with the
Presidents car, which meant keeping
the line of cars in the party unbroken
and travelling at high rate of speed.
Among the correspondents, in their
own car, was Frank Connor, with
wife, A big interstate bus nosed into
the cline of march" and struck
Connor's car. Mrs. Connor was seri-
ously injured Both husband and
wife brought suit against the bus
company. Connor lost, but his wife
was awarded $4,000.
The accident also had this out
growth: Correspondents covering the
White House petitioned the Presi-
dent to reduce the speed Of his driving
on such trips.