The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-04-13
Long Calendar
Called, Crash
Suit in Court
DANUBE ACCIDENT IN
1885 FIRST CASE
AT APRIL TERM


term of district court opened
"wednesday afternoon as Fred
p Struckmann and Paul Schumann
Of Morgan brought action against
Fred Schmid of Redwood Falls
and the Fitger Brewing company
for damages allegedly sustained in
an automobile accident near Dam
ube September 80, 1885.
Testimony Wednesday after
noon and this morning was sim
liar to that given in the April
1887 term of court when the case
against Schmid was brought into
court and then dismissed. The
Fitger company was later named
as co-defendant with Schmid,
their branch manager here.
He has filed a counter suit
against the plaintiffs.
The suit grew out of an &C
cident in which the Fitger truck
which Schmid was driving ard a
gravel truck owned by Schumann
and driven by Struckmann col
lided at an intersection south of
Danube.
Received injuries
Schmid, called for cross exam
ination by Henry Flor of New
Ulm, attorney for the plaintiffs,
was the first witness. He was fol-
lowed by Struckmann and DR.. T.
f. Finn who treated Struckmann
following the accident.
Struckmann received a broken
rib and a cut hand in the accident
and developed traumatic pneu-
monia following the accident, DIR.
Finn said.
The last witness Wednesday af-
ternoon was Clark Wood, another
truck driver employed by Schu-
mann who was the first to arrive
at the scene of the accident.
w. r. Werring of Morgan is CO.
counsel for plaintiffs. Andrew N.
Johnson of Minneapolis and A. C..
Dolliff of Redwood Falls are de-
Tense attorneys.
1t appeared this noon that the
case would go to the jury this af-
ternoon.
Charles H. Burmeister, first de-
Tense witness, was called at 10:l5
a. m. after Mr.. johnson had told
the jury he would show that Mr..
Schmid suffered critical injuries
in the accident.
Burmeister testified that he sold
the panel truck which Schmid
was driving and that its value was
around $575 before the mishap.
Afterwards, he said, he bid SIS for
it. Schmid was then called to the
stand
Judge A. B. Gislason opened
court Monday, devoting the NOR
ming to calling the calendar.
Sentence Check Writer
That afternoon he sentenced
Lester j. Schultz, 20, to 60 days
in the Redwood county Jail on the
charge of issuing a $375 check to
w. c. Ferguson of Walnut Grove
without funds lin the bank on
which it was drawn. Judge Gis-
Jason suspended the sentence and
put Schultz on probation for a
year. He lives in Cottonwood
county but his address is Walnut
Grove. He should not be confus-
ed with Lester K. Schultz, Wal
nut Grove business man.
This term of court should be a
lengthy one.
Listed for jury trial are the
cases of Mr.. and Mrs. Ruby Druck
of WabasSo versus Otto Gales of
Redwood Falls, an accident suit;
Pearl Carruth, as guardian of Mr..
and Mrs. Wallace Carruth versus
L. w. NeuschWander in another
accident case; G. c. King versus
the State of Minnesota in high
way appeal; Louis w. Meierding
and Elmer L. Meierding, minor,
versus William Parker in boun-
dairy dispute; Bert A. Way versus
the Land O'Lakes Creamery ard
Jerome Brudeli; Mary Ann Kagel,
a minor by John P. Kagel, her
father, versus A. L. Dugas; Hilda
Splitgerber versus Henry L.
Doepke and Carl Kruse; and
Emma Krause versus the same
defendants. All these last are &C
cident cases. Others scheduled are
Mary Broich versus Glenn Steiner
and Marion Sanders and Bernice
Bruins versus Otto Gales and
Ruby Druck.
Court hearings scheduled are:
Frank T. Virgins versus the
Equitable Life Assurance society
of the United States; Lester G.
Becker versus Margaret Becker;
William Roberts versus j. w.
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