Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1903 — Damage Suit Against The Pan Handle. [ARTICLE]

Damage Suit Against The Pan Handle.

Another damage suit was filed in the circuit oonrt Monday. The parties were Wm. J. Beed, administrator for the estate of John Beed, Sr., vs. the Pittsburg, Chicago, & St. Louis By., Co., known as the Panhandle railroad. The action is brought for damages for for the death of John Beed, Sr. whioh occurred at Bemington, on Jan. 21, 1903, and is brought through their attorneys Ferguson & Wilson. The plaintiff alleges that the defendant permitted a crossing over their tracks on Ohio street, in the town of Bemington to remain in an unsafe condition, * and that negligenoe was used in the switching of freight oars, and by reason of these oiroumstanoes that John Beed, Sr, lost his life by oatohing his foot in the unsafe crossing and being unable to release it, was run down by the defendant’s freight oars. The case promises to be a long contested and hard fought one. -