Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1916 — Monon Is Sued For Big Damages By Monticello Lady. [ARTICLE]

Monon Is Sued For Big Damages By Monticello Lady.

There has been filed in the Tippecanoe circuit court a damage suit against the Monon in which Mrs. Mable Carson, Monticello, demands the sum of $25,000 as damages for personal injury. The complaint sets out that on ‘ Christmas, 1910, the plaintiff bought a ticket at Lafayette for Brookston. The trip was made safely to the town named. Arrived there, the passengers destined for that place were directed to alight; and in so doing, the plaintiff alleges that the steps of the coach were covered with ice and in getting down to the platform from the coach, she slipped and fell, producing serious injury to her spine, and terminating in her having to submit to a surgical operation that was <sf a serious nature, and the bills for which and the medical attention resulting from the injuries necessitated an outlay of $1,200. The complaint states that not only were the injuries serious and painful but the resulting effects are permanent and the demand is made for $25,000.