Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 294, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1910 — Lane Case Against Railroads Being Tried at Adjourned Session. [ARTICLE]

Lane Case Against Railroads Being Tried at Adjourned Session.

The case of L. J. Lane against the Cotton Belt, C. & E. 1., and Pennsylvania railroads is occupying the court in a special session that began this Monday morning. Mr. Lane shipped three car loads of stock from Jonesboro, Mo., to Goodland, and claims that they were permitted to go’.without water as far as Momence, 111., jas a result of which many of them died and all were injured. Two dozen or more witnesses are here to attend the trial, largely railroad men. S. C. Irwin and Dunlap & Parkinson are the attorneys for Lane, while the railroads have a big bunch of attorneys. H. R. Kurrie, 6f the Monon, is conducting the case for the Cotton Belt road.