Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 305, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1915 — Wheatfield Man Wants Damages For Horse Killed By Auto. [ARTICLE]

Wheatfield Man Wants Damages For Horse Killed By Auto.

Through his attorney, Abe ETaJlecik, of Rensselaer, Rowe Laßue, of WheatfieM, filed suit in the circuit court Monday for damages of S3OO against W. A. Scheddel, of this city, v hidh is the l ast chapter to the automobile a/ccddenlt experienced by Mr. Scheddell and wife, and Fred A. Scull as chauffeur, on the 15th dlay of last September, when the Scull caff collided with a horse being led by LaRue which was killed an the road north off Wheatfield, where they were going to spend the day. During the mixup of the machine with the animal the car ran into a deep ditch at the side of .the road and Mr. Scheddell went overboard into ten feet of water and was completely submerged and later rescued by Mr. Scull, after every stitch on his back had been ruined by (the stagnant waiter. Mr. iScheddell’s and Scull’s story of the accident is that the horse being led by Laßue reared aver on the opposite side of the road just as the machine was passing and that the was unavoidable. The oomjplaint of Laßue says that the hlorse could have been sold a few days before the accident far S3OO, Which is asked for by the plaintiff.— Grown Point Star.