Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1908 — WANT DAMAGES FOR SICKNESS [ARTICLE]

WANT DAMAGES FOR SICKNESS

Residents of Pennsylvania Town File Suita Against Water Company as Test Cases.

Franklin, Pa., Jan. 2. —Charging that a recent typhoid fever epidemic was due to the water supply, a num ber of residents of this city are at tempting to collect damages for sickness in their families from the Venn n go Water company. Suits were filed by Rev. Dr. Maurice Penfield Fikes pastor of the First Baptist church, and James B. Borland, editor of the Frank lin Evening News. These are to l»e made test cases, and if they prove successful it is said more than fifty other suits will he In stituted. Attorneys for a committee of citizens are also preparing a suit seeking to annul the charter of the company.