Plea for damages sustained during accident en route to Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis, 27 April 1902; damages of $10,000.

Cover is missing. Case is brought by J. P. Ridgeway, an employee of the Broadway Coal Co., owned by W. W. Simmons & S. C. Berlin. His buggy was damaged by a trolley car he says was running on the wrong track.

Damages for personal injury

Cover page missing.

Plaintiff: Jennie Martin, admr of Thomas Gillooley, dec. who sues for the benefit of Elizabeth Gillooley, Thomas Gillooley and Marie Gillooley, minor children and next of kin of Thomas Gillooley. Additional defendant: Stoney Scott, John Yahnke. Cause of action: damages in the sum of $15,000.00.

Lizzie Barry, a resident of Crittenden Co., AR, sued railroad for $30,000 in death of her only child, George Allen Langdon. Langdon died on 12 Nov. 1900 in Crittenden Co., AR when he was removed from the train in which he was riding for refusing to pay his fare. Barry states her son, who was "sick & helpless at the time" was left in a remote area with no choice but to walk on the tracks; Langdon was struck & killed by a train. Barry charges railroad with wrongdoing & negligence in his death.

Folder only contains 3 briefs for case. Pages of 2nd brief severely damaged by rodents. Case was for railway car striking buggy.

Damages for personal injury and destruction of property: $5000.

Additional Defendant: Memphis Street Railway Co. Plaintiff originally sued for $5000, charging that in Oct. 1902 his delivery wagon was struck by ice wagon & street car belonging to defendants. His wagon was destroyed & his horse crippled. Plaintiff was thrown into the street, causing spinal injury & broken ribs. Also mentioned: Anna Forney, wife of Monroe Forney.

Folder only contains appeal by Memphis Street Railway Company.

This is a suit for damages for personal injuries inflicted upon the defendant by the collision of one of the cars of the Memphis Street Railway Company and the vehicle upon which the defendant was driving. This is only the Statement of Facts, Assignments of Error and Brief of the Plaintiff in Error. See also WT Box 840.

Graves sued the company after he was forcibly ejected from a streetcar by a conductor who refused to accept his transfer ticket, even though he had accepted the same type of ticket from the same passenger in the past. The plaintiff said he was humiliated by being thrown off into the street with everyone watching, had to walk to work in a storm, and was late arriving at work, causing him to fear that he might lose his job. Graves sued for $499.99.

T.E. Richardson sued Memphis Street Railway Co. for damages under $500.00 for hitting a horse that he owned. The horse was not killed but was so badly injured that it was no longer usable to Mr. Richardson.