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Show IIEAVY DAMAGE SUIT Workman Wants $25,000 Fram Southern Pacific. S NOW IN THE U. S. COURT last f Samual McFarlsna Bnught From Box Elder. lr.iais to Be lermanently Injured Because of aDcfective Ladder j ; ; apd Feight Car. eWi Claiming that 2 defective ladder on a Is? freight car causc him to sustain perma-uji perma-uji nfnl bodily Injur while employed as a ; brakeman on the Duthcrn Pacific railroad. ; Samuel McFarlaie has brought suit li acnlnst the coinpsy for the sun of 525,000 3r damages, the cas- having: been yesterday J5f transferred from lie District court of Box -f; Kldcr county to tie United States Circuit SiU Tnc complaint stages that on November "m 2, VM. when engiged In the performance 'jM, of his duties as abrakeman In the employ ST of the Southern Pacific company, near Si Hopup plallon. oi the Liucin cut-off, a !fl ifbrokcn laddrr jave way beneath his S,iwplghl, precipitator: him to the ground, a ' distance of fiftoc feet. Injuring his right M phouldet, his bac and the spinal column, W jiiervefi and muses of the back, and that At lie Injuries Mutoaed are permanent. It la M - further nllpgod tht tho company failed In ; Its duty in the ratter of keeping Its ap-J ap-J Iprinnccs In a sae condition and that it A I was wholly respnsiblo for the accident. l r.f The company. In Its answer, contends t "that In the workwhieh was IvMng carried ' Jpn at the tine Its equipment wis con--urantly Hubjcct d nccldenta which might vJmpilr Its safcl a situation well known to J's cmployees.who voluntarily incurred 'jL'juuca risks In nterlng nnd continuing mf upon this partlcuir employment, and that the accident comlnlned of mas largclv duo Mlf to the plaintiff siwn carelessness. |