Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1920 — VERDICT FOR MONON IN DAMAGE SUIT [ARTICLE]

VERDICT FOR MONON IN DAMAGE SUIT

The case of Robert A. Engle, administrator of the estate of Melinda Engle, against the Monon railroad, ended abruptly in the superior court Friday morning when Judge Henry H. Vinton instructed the jury that heard the evidence to bring in a verdict for the defendant. It was alleged Mrs. Engle came to her death on June 8, 1919, a? the result of injuries received in an accident at Monon, Ind., on July 8, 1918. The administrator asked damages in the sum of $lO,000. Mrs. Engle was a passenger on a Monon train en route to Francesville when the train collided with a truck driven by Paul Overton at Monon. The truck was carried down the track and crashed into a switch stand, causing the switch to open and the train to collide with a box car. In making his finding Judge Vinton said the approximate cause of the injury was the act of a third party in driving a Ford truck on to the railroad track in front of the train.—Lafayette Journal: ’—O' — Paul Overton is a Rensselaer boy, but is now residing in Monon.