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Show FILLED OFF HIS LEO. A Miner AVanU J0,00O on Account or Hie XcKllgence of a Company. Ill the district court today before Judge Zane and a jury, n $20 000 damage dam-age suit was taken up. ,Tho plaintiff in the action is August Larson a miner, who was. a year, ago, m the emploj of tlie South Galena Mining company. com-pany. Larson is suing the company com-pany for $20,000 by reason of personal injuries sustained January 21) 188!) The mines are located in halt Lake couutv. and while Larson was re-moving re-moving debris from tho mining shafts, lie fell and had a leg broken. He claim? that he would not have been injured had it not been. for tho negligence of the company in permitting insecure timbers in the trestle work. His leg was broken and had to bo amputated, which has now made him a cripple for lifo. Judge Powers is Larson's attorney. Tho case will probably go to tho jury this afternoon. . - |