Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1908 — BRINGS SUIT AGAINST CITY [ARTICLE]

BRINGS SUIT AGAINST CITY

Fair Oaks Parties Make Street Contractors Parties To Suit For Alleged Damages. 1 < , *• Mrs. Sarah E. Burns and Miss Elizabeth J. Thompson, both of Fair* Oaks, by their Attorneys Foltz & Spitler have filed a claim for $1,200 damages for injuries alleged to have been received Sept. 17, 1907. Contractors, Thompson & Smith, and sub contractor, Conrad Kellner are made defendant parties to the, suit. The plaintiff alleges that on Sept. 17. 1907, they were going from the Monon ciepot to town, and that the contractors were working on the cement curb near the old Foster House and had a chalk line stretched across the walk, which the plaintiff’s did not see, and the contractors failed to warn them. They tripped and fell and Mrs. Burns dislocated both of her wrists, she alleges that since that time she has been unaole to do enough labor time to support herself as she is compelled to do. She asks ftr damages to the amount of 11,090. Miss Thompson received minor injuries for which she asks damages to the amount of S2OO. It is not improbable that a compromise will be es fected.