Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1911 — SUES FOR $50,000 [ARTICLE]

SUES FOR $50,000

Eva Warrer Biggers, Hit by Train, Seeks Damages. Mount Vernon, N. Y., March ‘lo. Miss Eva Biggers, a society girl of Maysville, Ky., who was seriously injured by a train of the New York Central at Bronxville, July 9 last, has brought an action in the supreme court and Justice Mills at White Plains has appointed Charles Bruce, of New York city, her guardian. She sues for $50,000 damages. Miss Biggers and a chum, Miss Mary Powers, of New York, were hurrying to keep a luncheon engagement and had crossed in back of a southbound train which was standing at the Bronxville station. As they reached the northbound track a train Etruck both of them and injured them so badly that they were removed to the hospital. Miss Powers died, but Miss Biggefs recovered, although she was seriously injured.