Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1915 — Former Employe of Monon Seeks $25,000 Damages. [ARTICLE]

Former Employe of Monon Seeks $25,000 Damages.

Lafayette, Indry- Tan.. 17.—Basil Young, 28 yeors old, whose complaint says he was employed as a flagman on a passenger train on the Monon railroad, has brought suit against the company in the Superior court of' Tippecanoe county, demand-

ing $25,000 for injuries alleged ,to have been suffered last August at Ladoga. The plaintiff alleges that on the day of the accident he stepped from the car platform and, having no knowledge that the railroad company had caused to be placed on the side of. the track a dozen rails, he stepped on these rails. His ankle turned and he was thrown backward, his head and back striking on the hails, injuring his ankle, spine and back. .