Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1896 — Fisher Gets $4,500 Verdict. [ARTICLE]

Fisher Gets $4,500 Verdict.

The case of Henry admin A 1 istrator of the estate of AST son, tne late Benjamin Fisher, against the L. N. A. AC. Railway Co., was tried last Friday and Saturday, at Bentland, where it had been taken from this county, on change of venue. The suit was brought for the bene* fit of the estate of the late Benjamin Fisher, the Monon section hand whose accidental death on the 19th day of

ast July, by being run down by a freight train, while at work on the track near Surrey, is fresh in the minds of most of our readers. So also, are the facts of what, as we have no doubt, was the criminal attempt of some of the train-men to shift the responsibility of their own carelessness, by trying to make it appOr that fibs* was drunk whetT killed. Fisher left a widow and 6 children, and for their benefit the soft was brought. At the trial the railroad’s lawyers made practically no defense. They did not introduce a single witness nor make any argument to the jury, but seemed to rely on the attempt to show that the law was suoh as to relieve the oompany from responsibility. Fisher, the administrator, sued for 15,000, and the jury brought in a verdict in his favor for S4JKX). As is always the rule in such eases, howpvsr, the verdict is s qualified one, and is on the condition that if the court funds be law to be wib the plaintiff, be verdict shall be in his favor, for the amount named. Whether be law is in the plaintiff’s favor is a point for be Judge to decide, after opportunity given tor arguments by the oounseL Bob Phillips Laundry. Ladies’ Shirt Waists, and Collars and Caffs, s specialty. Dene ta fine order. Sent out Wednesdays; received back Saturdays.

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