Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1919 — BRINGS SUIT FOR $10,000. [ARTICLE]

BRINGS SUIT FOR $10,000.

Gordan A. Ramsey, Admr. for the estate of Mike Leoni, deceased has , filed suit in the circuit court against Frank Howard, a Remington business man for 810-000. v The complaint alleges that said Leoni was killed in Chicago on April 5, 1917, by said Howard; that the defendant was driving his automobile a Moline-Knight, with Ind., license No. 39075 on Prairie avenue at 5:30 o’clock in the morning; that it was still dark, and that the defendant was driving at a high rate of speed; that said defendant was unable to control his ear on account of a defective break and that he did not have the required light. The complaint further states that said plaintiff was at the time of his death 49 years of age, that he was earning $3 per day and that he supported his wife and two children, aged 16 and 10 years.