Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1893 — The Circuit Court. [ARTICLE]

The Circuit Court.

The case of Renicher vs L. N. A. &C. Ry Company was tried before a jury, last Thursday and Friday, and attracted a good deal of public attention. On June 26, 1891, Miss Annaßenieher, then 19 years old, and whose family live in Barklcy^Tp JV . gut-JigE the early morning train, at Delphi, to come to Rensselaer. The train in stopping here, ran quite a distance beyond the platform and she did not get off, and the train went on. The conductor or some other train man, told her to go on to Fair Oaks,) or some other stopping place, and they would furnish transportation back to Rensselaer. A little later she was advised to get off at Surrey, and consented. Again the train ran far beyond the platform, from 600 feet to a mile, according to different witnesses. Miss Renicher was excited and alarmed, and when she went to get off, reached her hands to the conductor, before she had reached the lowest step, and jumped off, expecting to be steadied in her long descent by the train man, but either aecidentally[or carelessly she was allowed to come down “kerplunk” so to speak. She was hurt in ankle, knee and back, but walked back to Surrey and a little later to Simon Kenton’s, then to a brother’s place, not far off. She did not complain much of her injuries but then and since they have given her much trouble. The jury thought she ought to have recompense, and gave her a verdict of S7OO.

Nelson Morris, whose unsuccessful attempt to take his appeal from the Wheatfield ditch to the Federal court was noted last week, applied to the U. S. District court, at Indianapolis, last Saturday, for the same purpose, but was again unsuccessful. The case is set for trial here, today. The noted Makeever vs Halstead road case, appealed from the Commissioners’ Court, began trial Tuesday.