Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 157, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1916 — LANDY MAGEE LOSES SUIT [ARTICLE]

LANDY MAGEE LOSES SUIT

$15,000 Suit Against the John Makeever Estate For Injuries Received it Not Upheld. The case of Magee vs. J. W. Stockton et al, in which the former sued the estate for injuries received about three years ago when the appellant fell from the fire escape at the Ma'keever Hotel, has been decided. The decision was affirmed by the appellate court this week and sustained by all the judges. About three years ago Mr. Magee was employed to test the fire escape at the hotel.- Magee entered into a written contract to test the escapes for so much money, and while making the tests one of the escapes broke and Magee fell several feet to the. sidewalk, and as a result was laid up -for several weeks. {The estate, while not being compelled to do so, made Mr. Magee a present-of SSO at that time. Magee later brought suit in the Jasper circuit court for $15,009, where the case was decided against him. He then appealed to the appellate court.