Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1885 — She Sues for $10.00. [ARTICLE]

She Sues for $10.00.

James Buck, adtt>k>iatraV>r of the -estate of Geo. H. Bennett, deceased, lias begun suit in the Jasper Circuit «Court< against the L , N. A. <fe C. rail--■way company, for the benefit of Fidelia J. Bennett, for the damage she sustair* .ed in the loss of her husband, the above named Geo. H. Bennett, who was killed -by the cars, at La Cross, in Nov., 188:1. '.The amount of judgment asked for is 810,000. The plaintiff sets forth in his complaint that Bennett at the time of his death, was employed as a brakesman .on the L., N. A. & C., and was killed through no-fault of his own, and while In the line of his duty, through the •carelessness of Henry Cherry, the engineer of the train which killed him. It is altogether improbable that the • case wilt be tried in-this county-, as It is vijiiite customary for one or more chang<es of venue to be taken in such cases. -Coflroth & Stewart, of Lafayette, and Judge E.'P. Hammond, ot Rensselaer, are attorneys for the plaintiff.