Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 281, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1915 — DAMAGE SUIT AGAINST PURDUE DISMISSED [ARTICLE]

DAMAGE SUIT AGAINST PURDUE DISMISSED

Judge Throws $25,000 Damage Suit Against Pardue for Death of Student, Out of Court. Judge Cald*well in the Tippecanoe circuit court Tuesday dismissed the $26,000 damage suit filed against Purdue University several mouths ago by Abraham L. Obenchain, of South Whitley, Ind. Übenchain’s son was killed in a tank scrap at Purdue in September, 1913, and the suit grew out of this incident Purdue University was named as a corporation in the complaint and Judge Caldwell held that the institution is not a corporation and was not such as the date young Obenchain was killed. The death of the young man was caused from a broken neck received in the annual tank scrap that has since been discontinued.