Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1916 — SUE FOR DAMAGES TO BRIDGE [ARTICLE]

SUE FOR DAMAGES TO BRIDGE

Tippecanoe. Commissioners Ask Hfc*,000 From Automobile Party. Lafayette, Ind.. March 10. Action was taken by the county commissioners today which resulted in the filing of a suit for damages against the members of an automobile party which, early Sunday morning, ran into the railing of the Main street bridge and badly damaged it. The commissioners are asking *2,000 damages. .Miss Catherine Regent of Indianapolis, who was with the party, is named as one of the defendants. This is the second suit for s2,»t)o damages brought against the party. Charles V. McAdams, an attorney, whose car was being driven by Charles Kirkpatrick, in asking $2,000 damages from Kirk--I,a trick and the others for demolishing his car.