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Show The flas Company I'avs Damages. In the cawe of Gertrude M. McNeill aj;aiimt tho Boston OiW Litflit company, which has been on trial in the second I session of the superior court, and in i which the plaintiff claimed 10,0(10 for personal injuries, a jury awarded ln-r ! damages in the sum of 0,000. MissMe-i MissMe-i Ncal was employed in astore, and an em-! em-! ploye of the company, in testing a ine- ter, left a trap door open, through which ; Miss Mc N'eal fell. Iler injuries are of a permanent nature, aa testified t by sev-' sev-' oral well known physicians, ;tnd the 1 defense, while not attempting to contra-j contra-j diet that evidence, claimed that the surroundings sur-roundings of tho plaintiff were not of that quiet nature which a person in her condition ought to have. Before the ; trial began an offer of $7,000 was made ; by tho defendant in settlement. Boston : Journal. |