Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 180, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1919 — MONON DEFENDANT IN $15,000 SUITS. [ARTICLE]

MONON DEFENDANT IN $15,000 SUITS.

Robert D. Engle, through his attorneys, Frank Kimmel and Randolph and Milford, filed two suits Thursday, July 31, in the superior court in Lafayette against the Monon railroad and Walker D. Hines, director general of railroads, the two suits aggregating $15,000. One su it was brought by Mr. Engle as the administrator of his wife’s estate, and asks for $10,000; the other, for $5,000, brought by Mr. Engle for the loss of his wife, Margaret Malinda Engle, who, according to the complaint, was injured on the Monon road over a year ago. The complaint avers that on July 8, 1918, Mrs. Engle (bought a ticket from Lafayette to Francesville, and that at Monon the train was derailed. The complaint further alleges that Mrs. Engle suffered such a severe nervous shock that it resulted in her death on June 8, 1919. Besides the husband, three children survive.