Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1909 — SHE ASKS $5,000 DAMAGES [ARTICLE]

SHE ASKS $5,000 DAMAGES

Woman Says Grocer Placed Her Name on a Blacklist. Marion, Ind., Feb. 9. —Mrs. Annie Goodwin, a boarding house keeper of Gas City, has hied suit in the Grant circuit court against James Bastain, a grocer of Gas City, for $5,000 damages, alleging that the defendant has destroyed her business by placing her name on the blacklist of the Gas City Grocers' association. Mrs. Goodwip further alleges that it was for the purpose of coercing her into giving him all her trade that Bastian assailed her honesty and ruined her credit. She says that her occupation as boarding house keeper was the sole means of supporting herself and three children.