Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1905 — Wants $5,000 For A Horse. [ARTICLE]

Wants $5,000 For A Horse.

The I. I. 1. Ry 00,-, which runs through the northern part of this county, baa been sued in our cirout court for'ss,ooo damages. The plaimiffa are Wm, A. Buntin and Hiram P. Stephens. They allege that on July Bth 1904 they shipped a black racing mare named “Black Pet” from Lebanon Ind. to Mendota, 111, They shipped her over the Big Font to Kankakee 111. and there the Big Pour delivered her to the Three I to take the rest of the way to Mendota. While still at Kankakee as alleged in the oomplaint, a Throe I tram Crew ran a train against the car which Black Pet was traveling She being of a nevous and high spirited disposition received a shock to her nervous system she never recovered from, and also had her spine in juried and was otherwise bruised and wounded Hence damages are demanded in the sum of $5,000.