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Damages of $10,000 from personal injury due to a construction site accident

Plaintiff sued for $10,000 in damages for personal injuries sustained in a fire that occurred on a streetcar on which she was a passenger. She was severely injured jumping from the car and was unable to return to her job as a nurse.

Plaintiff is sued the railroad company (Illinois Central) for $96 "in a plea of debt due by loss, damage and shrinkage to cattle while in transit over defendant's roads from Coldwater, Miss., and E. St. Louis, Ill."

This is the plaintiff's brief for the Court of Civil Appeals in Jackson. There are no other case files.

Pankey claims that his transfer from one line to another was not accepted by the conductor in the second streetcar, and that he was thrown off the car by a policeman and subjected "to humiliation, and great mortification," despite having paid his fare. See WT Box 1373 for remainder of the case.

Additional defendants: the Sassafras Company, a firm composed of C. A. Ferguson and C. A. Ferguson; Mr. W. W. Pickle and Mrs W. W. Pickle. Cause of action: negligence and damages for a faulty constructed and negligently maintained areaway and grating which the plaintiff is alleging to have caused her husband's (Ben Brown) injury and death.

Reems is sued Hayes for "debt due by promissory note, $173.00" plus $1.80 interest. Plaintiff's name is also spelled "Francis Reems" at various points in the document, but she is described as "a single woman," so "Frances" is more likely to be correct.

For injuries to carload of horses shipped from Chicago to Memphis.

The suit is for damages by reason of the delay in a shipment of merchandise from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Memphis, Tennessee.

Included is a statement of the case assignments of error and brief and argument for the plaintiff in error.

Plea of debt due for labor performed as a mechanic in the sum of $14.70, under $500.00. R. M. Martin, contractor. Defendants: Morris Walsh, Mrs. Jennie Breen, Mrs. Morris Walsh, Mrs. O'Reilly, and R. M. Martin. Business located at S. Fourth St., Memphis.

An action of damages to the amount of $1,999.00, injuries sustained on the job, 19 May 1909, at the Nonconnah Rail yards, Memphis. Decision appealed to the Court of Civil Appeals, Jackson.

An action to recover damages for personal injuries sustained in an accident at a railroad crossing, 14 May 1909. Crossing near Horn Lake Road, Shelby County, Tenn. Partial file. Brief for Plaintiffs in Error by Bell, Terry & Bell.

Incomplete record: only Argument on Behalf of Plaintiff in Error present.

Additional plaintiffs: C. Irene Briggs and W. A. Briggs. John C. Parr is the executor of the state of Emma R. Bailey. Cause of action: will of Emma R. Bailey contested. Case fills two folders.

Trolley car collided with a fire truck in the middle of an intersection. Mrs. Bollinger was thrown across the car and "maiming her for life." Second part of case stored in WT Box 1265

Bound brief included.

Breach of contract by plaintiff, commissions on sale of saw mill and timber on 1,200 acres of land located in Sunflower County, Miss. Judgment of $499.00. Plaintiff John J. Clark resident of Jacksonville, Illinois. Two folders.