Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1906 — WILL AGAIN APPEAL. [ARTICLE]

WILL AGAIN APPEAL.

Evidently the Panhandle railroad company has not got enough in the Reed damage case from Remington for the killing of John Reed, Sr., at the Ohio street crossing in that town some three years ago. This case has already been twice tried, once in the Jasper circuit court and a verdict of $2,500 given—from which the railroad appealed and was granted a new trial and then took a change of venue from this county—and recently in the White circuit court where a judgment for $4,000 was given. An appeal has now been taken from this latest decision. The policy of most railroad companies and other corporations is to wear out everyone who seeks to secure damages from them. Fearing a reversal because of excessive damages, the attorneys for W. J. Reed, the administrator, remitted SI,OOO of the $4,000 awarded by the jury.