Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1892-02-27 | Page 5 | The Legal Lexicon

THE LEGAL LEXICON The Olson Damage Case Still on Trial IMPORTANT MINING SUIT BEGAN Andrew Kjellstrom Wants 500000 For Ore Taken From the Saturn Probate Proceedings Pro-ceedings Court Notes The trial of the case of John J Olsen vs the Oregon Short Line was resumed in tho Third district court yesterday morning The plaintiff In this action alleged that on February 141831 Le was driving along a public highway crossing the railway track near Bingham Junction when he was run down by a locomotive of the defendant de-fendant company and as a result both of his horses were killed the wagon wrecked and ho received permanent injuries Olson alleged that no whistle was blown or bell rung to warn him of the approach of the train and that the accident was entirely due to the carelessness of lie defendant company Ho asked lor dam age in the sum of 410000 WITll ELEVEN JURORS Frank T Hiatt one of the jurors sworn in the case was excused from attendance because be-cause his mother was not expected to live and the trial was proceeded with with eleven jurors by consent of both parties WITH TEN JURORS Later in the day Henry Wright another juror was called away upon most urgent business busi-ness and the trial went ahead with only ten good men and true in the box 1 be trial was in progress when the court adjourned ad-journed