Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1916 — Judgment For $40,000 Asked Of Monon In U. & Court. [ARTICLE]

Judgment For $40,000 Asked Of Monon In U. & Court.

. One of the largest damage suits ever filed against an Indiana railroad Was filed in the U. S. district court at Chicago Tuesday by Harvey Wynkoop, attorney for Mrs. Zoe Cochran, widow of Ora F. Cochran, who lost his life on Dec. 15, last, at Wallace Junction. She asks judgment in the sum of $40,000. Mr. Cochran was working on an extra. southbound freight train and was repairing a brake beam under one of the cars when the train started up and he was crushed to death. The attorney who brought teh suit was the attorney for G. H. Hackett, of Monon, who had two legs cut off in an accident on the Monon, and who was awarded damages against the company m the sum of $35,000. Mrs. Cohcran refused to settle under the new workman’s compensation act.