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Show PLAYED ON THE CARS. Child's Parents Now Want Damages Because He Was Run Over. George B. Hackwell, a minor, by Ella E. Hackwell, his guardian ad litem, has brought suit against tho Oregon Short Lint company for $15,000 damages Th-boy, Th-boy, who is only 6 years old, was playing with a number of other boys on and about B train of gravel cars and had his leg cut off Sept. 20, l'XM. The train started suddenly sud-denly while Ihe child was climbing on one of the cars He was shaken off and thrown under the wheels. The complaint alleges that the railroad i o m puny was at fault The -, , .b-nt ti . . i -pen. . I at Eourth YVst, between Third and Fourth .North The complaint says that ti.. district la thickly populated and that children have to cross; the track on their wa to anl from school Many of them were in the habit of playing on the track and In and about the cars of the company On the day when the little boy Hackwell was Injured a number of boys rode em the gravel train to tho point where It was standing They played on the cars while the train was Standing still The complaint com-plaint says that the plaintiff. In trying to climb up on one of the cars slooel on the steps In full view of the defendant's em-ploj em-ploj ees |