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lt;1-INTO COURT AGAIN[*mXdtmr«ida-Second Action Over Death of9 “ •Boy Begun.HENRY BURK PLAINTIFFY-s„eLSteaDefendants Recently Sus' , 4tained In Federal Court.XiSihiatAtaDEiAiofQiSiiDeath of Seventeen-Year-Old Lad Furnishes Material foi* Much Litigation—-Second Petition Similar to the*Original One.asc.• I. f § • . ■(From Thursday’s Dally ) . Henry F, .Burk, administrator of the estate of Harry O. Burk, the seventeen-year-old lad who died from the effects (ft drinking sulphuric acidi has again ^sought the. courts in an endeavor to obtain judgment against the Creamery Package Manufacturing company.With the local,manufacturing concern, James Stout, salesman, is namedas defendant,.and1 the allegations setforth in a lengthy petition filed in. the Blackhawk county district court today are substantially the same as contained in the original bill. •LaiLF0Dismissed In Federal Court•r. • •.: The original action for damages begun. in the district court was. for $20,-OQQ and was taken to the. federal court tor hearing early in the year. The attorneys in the case contested the action vigorously before Judge Reed, who ( sustained the -defendant’s motion to take the case from '.the Jury. He also sustained the plaintiffs in dismissing the action without prejudice, thus admitting of its rehearing in the district .-court,- -• ■ .TPlajGoii.PiclChaBur A and testi picn club dam and days Tl by lt;Boy. plod in 1903.a jug. of Bul^huric acid to p.. Reldel,proprietor of the .Crane; Creek dream-1 ery on January 26, 190.3, . by James Stout, -an employe- of the concern. ' ‘As will be remembered the jug wasplaced; on a slielf in the Reidel cream-ery and Harry 0, Burke, a young lad residing in that vicinity, on February ()3, while transacting business at the creamery mistook the jug of acid for buttermilk. He drank from -the contents.'and died in great agony the following day.Want $1,999 Damages, ^ .The plaintiff.alleges negligence on the part of the defendants .and 'the new petition follows closely : along the lin^ observed in the orfgink.1 document To prevent the removal of the ease to the federal court the.plaintiff asks for $1,999 damages.
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Semi Weekly Iowa State Reporter
Waterloo, Iowa, US
Fri, Aug 19, 1904
Page 5
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Waterloo P.
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