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DAMAGE SUIT. , jJoseph Wuratner Has Com-menoed Action Againstthe O., H. D. l/i\Allege Thut iih Kortult of A»»au!t by Detectivo Crooks Ho in Permanently , ...Injuml-lilfi,OOOSiim Named. I r|jmis\/tv'’a)6orP*se■ v*il)to.Ak444Ifft* 1AisIn Common Pleas court t Lima, by jjj Reeve Linderaan, attorneys, suit was Bled Wednesday against the Cin- ^ Moinnati, Hamilton Dayton Railroad I ^ Company for $5,000 damages for in-1 juries received by Joseph Wurstner, at the hands of Perry Crooks, a defective in the employe of the railroad company.The petition sets forth that Wuratner purchased of the Delphoa agent ofthe company a round trip ticket toCincinnati, on July Id, 1001, and that n I while returning to Deiphos that even-?- iuig, and occupying a seat in one a I of the passenger oars, the said Perry Crooks “did wrongfully, wilfully, negligently, forcibly and unlawfully make an assault upon the said plaintiff and then and there beat, wound and ill treat the plaintiff and strike the plaintiff in the face twice with bis fist and thereafter many times with a heavy I $ bludgeon, on and about tbe said plain-1 $ tiff's head and face, thereby loosening | the plaintiff's teeth, injuring the sight of the plaintiff's left eye and injuring the plaintiff's brain so that he cannot stoop or bend over without getting dizzy, whereby the plaintiff4beoame and was for a long time sick and pore and put to great suffering and anguish and was compelled to suffer and did suffer great expense in and about trying to cure himself; and is Otherwise injured. That plaintiff fears and believes that by reason of said assault and the said blows so as abovesaid inflicted upon him by the defendant tbe sight of his said left eye was and is permanently injured in the plaintiff’s brain permanently affected. That by reason oi the premises the plaintiff has sustained dam ages in the sum of $5,000, for which he prays judgment.*g11idedig•eaohsr.enIth[ft-ofth
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Delphos Herald
Delphos, Ohio, US
Thu, Aug 01, 1901
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