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Damages for personal injury

Damages for $5,000.00

Benjamin W. Hirsh violated Jim Crow Law by refusing to be seated in the place "designated or set apart for passengers of his race or color on a street Railway car" Note: Hirsh or Hirsch? - both are used in case

Additional defendants: Mary A. Lake, A. C. Lake, Byron G. Lake, Ernest B. Lake, Louise L. Bradford and her husband Samuel W. Bradford. Daniel Lake, deceased. 2 photographs included and 2 briefs included. Damages for resulting in injuries due to the change in the grade of Piomingo Street in Memphis.

Spokesman for plaintiff (a grain elevator company) is Caruthers Ewing; for railroad, Sid Oliver, agent. Plaintiff provides a lengthy list of services provided and amounts billed. Defendant says it did not contract with the plaintiff for these services, and that the services were not provided.

Damages for acts of violence by the conductor.

Sued for $2000.00 in damages after being "mortified, humiliated…and greatly frightened by the conduct of the conductor of her car."

Cause of action: damages for a railway car and mule drawn cart collision that damaged the cart and injured the mule and driver (the plaintiff in error).

Thompson is the administrator of the estate of Walter C. Goodloe, deceased. Goodloe was a fireman for the railroad and was killed in a collision between two trains while he was on duty.

Plea of due on account under $500. Appeal to the Court of Civil Appeals, Jackson, TN.

The case involved the recovery of damages for an alleged change of grade of Boyd's lands, causing an overflow of Montgomery's lot by surface water.

Defendant accused of operating a rail car that "was propelled upon and against said John T. Baker with great violence, causing his death, and that said death was caused by the negligence and carelessness" of the railway company. The complainant charged operators' incompetence, high speed, improper equipment, and failure to use effective warning for an oncoming car.

Damages for $5,000.00

The plaintiff was expecting a $50 money order but claims he never received the money or any notification about it for several days, during which he was forced to live on the streets and "suffered great humiliation and mortification by reason thereof. His next friend in the case is his father, an attorney, who had sent the money promptly upon request and filed the case for damages.

Damages for not accepting a paid fare and personal injury.

Other defendants: R. L. Neighbors; Jim Priddy. Case possibly related to Illinois Central Railroad Company v. J. L. Cooper in box WT 1054.

For Use of Original Defendant in Error, or Petitioner: Levinia Vaiden Additional : Jerry Dun and Henry Hogue

Plaintiff was one of many passengers on a streetcar when its control box burst into flames. As the car filled with smoke, the driver panicked and ran back through the car, leaving it to run wild, and adding to the passengers' distress. Plaintiff was shoved to the back of the car by fleeing passengers, where he fell to the ground, suffering serious injury.

The case involved the loss of a shipment of hay.

Recovery of damages in the death of Henry Perkins, accident of 8 Dec. 1906.