FOR DEATH OF F. STODOIAJoseph Mall»n. prominent Whiting i-omrafii'r. 71 Nc'v York aveniio. was named a defcudan in a $10,POO personal injury '•nil filed yesterday in Hammond Superior court by Kivsi. Trust Savings bank, ad-; mini.-;rators of Mu- estate f Frank IsicdnJn. deecusrd, nd former employe of Matlon.The administrator if mi inis Matlon for damages as Hie result o{ in-f juries which Stodola received while riding' to work in an automobile driven by Matlon n July IS. l:K’.The two men were riding to a jobin Harvey, when the ear approached ihr railroad trat'kf *C th*. C. 1C. 1. at. Yard Cm tier, just. south of '-‘al-iii. 111. According to the complaint 1114- flagman at she i-n'ssing sounded a warning- of an approaching: train, but Mat Ion kept, oil driving- and crashed into *j,e train. In the crash Siodola r reived injuries which proved fatal. Ho is . .irvived by 'wo brother^. Negligence on the. part •»£ the Whiting contractor in failing- to observe and obey signals arc blamed for causing Llic fatality.