C. H. Over asks $100,000 in damages from 1892 fire
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[Newspaper] Publication: The Morning News Muncie, IN, United States |
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A BIG LAW SUIT. C. H. Over Asks $100,000 Damages of the L. E. & W. C. H. Over and the insurance companies which held and paid risks on his factory which was destroyed by fire on the 18th of June,1892, by their attorneys, Bates & Hading and R. W. Barber, of Chicago, and Ryan & Thompson, of this city, filed suit in the circuit court yesterday to recover damages in the sum of $100,000 from the Lake Erie & Western Railway Co., claiming that the burning of the factory was caused by a spark from a passing L.E.W. engine. It will be remembered that the plaintiffs some time ago sued the L. E. & W. Co. for $75,000 damages on the same plea, and the case was certified to the U. S. District Court on an error. This case will be dropped and the new one pushed by the plaintiffs. R. S. Gregory is the local attorney for the railway company.
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