Show a = VfROCT fOR MRS STfPHENS JURY A W ADS HER 82000 DAMAGES AGES FOB HUSBANDS DEATH Trial of the Damage Suit of Nancy Anderson Against the Gilsonite Asphalt Company Begun Demurrer De-murrer Sustained In Billings vs Parsons The jury in the damage suit of Jennie H Stephens against the Oregon Short Line company by which she sought to recover 25000 for the death of her husband in a railway accident near Sandy brought in a verdict for the plaintiff at about 10 oclock last night I awarding her 2000 The trial of the case was concluded in the federal court about 4 oclock in the afternoon The witnesses placed on the stand by the defense yesterday were Henry Pugh and William H Scott Arguments to the jury were made by Colonel Ellis and Barlow Ferguson Fer-guson for the plaintiff and Attorney Sutherland for the railway company Another Damage Suit The suit of Nancy Anderson against I the Gilsonite Asphalt company was called up yesterday in the federal court at the conclusion of the damage suit of Jennie H Stephens and at the time court adjourned a jury had been impaneled im-paneled The complaint says that William Anderson husband of the plaintiff was killed on Nov 24 1896 in an explosion at the Gilsonite mine in Uintah county Her claim is for 25000 damages Mrs Anderson is represented by Attorneys Baskin and Hoge and Attorney Howat appears for the Gilsonite company Demurrer Sustained In the case of John H Billings against Elias H Parsons and others who were on his bond at the time he held the office of United States marshal there was a hearing yesterday on the demurrer of the defendants that the case was not in the courts jurisdiction I The court sustained the demurrer The I basis of the complaint was damages alleged to have been suffered by the I plaintiff in the serving of a writ of attachment I at-tachment by the exmarshal |