Pleasant Grove Review | 1934-03-30 | Page 5 | Damage Suit Filed for Boys Death

Domag-e Sint Filed For Boys Death Seeking S18.000 in damages, Oscar' J. Dean of American Fork filed suit ; against the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad company in the j Fourth district court at Provo Tuesday Tues-day morning for the death of his son. Elwood Dean, on January 20, 1934. ! Dean charges that the railroad employes were negligent in allow- j ing a train to crash into the stalled' automobile of young Dean, although ; the view down the tracks was said ! to be clear and unobstructed for ai mile ahead of the crossing. The crossing on which Elwood Dean was killed is located two and ' a half miles westerly from the rail-road rail-road station In American Fork.