Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 156, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1915 — Jennie M. Conrad Gets $1,750 From Railroad. [ARTICLE]

Jennie M. Conrad Gets $1,750 From Railroad.

The suit of Jennie M. Conrad vs. The New York Central Railroad, set for hearing for last Monday, at Fowler, was compromised after one witness had been examined. Miss Conrad owns 5,000 or 6,000 acres of land in Newton county and asked for $6,390 damages from the New York Central, which runs through her land, for fires started a number of times in the last two years from sparks from the engines. The jury was accepted - " by both sides Monady and after one witness had been examined the court was dismissed for the day. During the evening the parties interested met and compromised, the railroad company paying Mrs. Conrad $1,750. The case was venued to Benton from Newton county some time ago.