Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 224, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1916 — Monon Defendant to a Big Personal Injury Suit. [ARTICLE]

Monon Defendant to a Big Personal Injury Suit.

Thomas M. Brinkworth, administrator of the estate of Henry Wilson, deceased, has filed suit in the Lawrence -circuit court for $25,000 damages against the Monon Ry. The suit is brought under the federal liability l<yw. It is alleged in the complaint that the plaintiff has been regularly appointed by law as administrator of the estate of Henry Wilson. That on July 9, 1916, Henry Wilson was employed as a section hand by the defendant; that he left Bedford on a handcar by order of the defendant’s foreman and that Wilson was killed when a northbound freight train ran against the car; that he had not been given notice that the train was due. It was further alleged that he was an able bodied man, earning $1.60 a day.