Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 291, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1919 — JUDGMENT FOR $100 [ARTICLE]

JUDGMENT FOR $100

The case of Harry Sellers vs. Vernon Hagen, venued from Newton county, was tried by a jury here Wednesday and the plaintiff was awarded damages to the amount of SIOO. The action grew out of an automobile accident in which the .defendant Hagen’s automobile collided with the plaintiff’s buggy. Suit was brought for SI,OOO personal damages, which the defendant claims to have sustained by reason of the accident. The plaintiff claims the defendant ran into his buggy without giving warning, while the plaintiff was at the proper side of the road and that the •‘defendant’s automobile was not properly lighted. Orth Greaves, of Kentland, was attorney for the plaintiff and John A. Dunlap, of this city, represented the defendant.