Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 301, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1920 — WIDOW GIVEN $6,000 VERDICT [ARTICLE]

WIDOW GIVEN $6,000 VERDICT

MRS HATTIE ARNOTT AWARDED DAMAGES AGAINST . r PANHANDLE R. R. • Mrs. Hattie Arnott was .given a verdict of $6,000 against tne Pittsburg, Chicago, Cincinnati and St. Louis railroad in the Porter circuit court at LaPorte last week, the case resulting from the death of her husband, Will Arnott, who was a mail- clerk in the employ of the government on one of the defendant’s trains. Mrs. Arriott brought suit for SIO,OOO following the death of her husband, the complaint air leging that her husband's death was due to acute pneumonia,. contracted by reason of inadequate heat in the mail car. Mr. Arnott’s death occurred December 27, 1915. The car in which Mr. Arnott was workipg was set on a siding for several hours and was without heating facilities. Mr. Arnott completed his run the following day at noon and was very ill at the time. He died the following morning at seven o’clock. The case was turned over to tne jury at three o’clock in the afternoon and the verdict was brought in half an hdur later. The case was first tried in 1916, but, due to an #rror on the part of the judge in instructing the jury at that time, the defendant was granted a new trial. The first trial resulted .in a verdict of $6,000 for the plaintiff. It is thought the defendant will not again ask for .a new trial. The Arnotfs were residents of Crown Point when Mr. Arnotvs death occurred, but the widow and her family are now residents of this city. . '■)