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Show BIG VERDICT RETURNED IN lOTOC CASE Award of $22,500 Made to Former For-mer Engineer in Judge Ritchie's Court. in tha damage suit of former Engineer Clmiirs A. Brown ngnlnsi the Union Pari Pa-ri h Rallrn.nl omimny. 11 Jury In .IipIkc Kit. hh '.s court returned a verdict In fit -vor of the plaintiff Thursday mornltiK' f'r i-'J,600. Held in Ahey:tnce. As loon as the VOrdlct was returned. however, judge, Ritchie announced that he would set It aH.de excessive Later JudRo Main nn .1 ii .iskcrl Jnrlgn Ritchlo to hold the matter In abeyanca until counsel for ihe deXenaa could tx heard tiprin it, and Instead of entering the order tlliiK: the v.rdlct aside .Judge Ritchie, Imply entcriMl an order that nc further slops lo tak'-n Ii the natter nnlll a decision de-cision Is reiiehed aa to the verdict. Injured in n Collision. R'nttn was Injured In n collision four miles et of Green River, eighteen n.iittthH iiro, the train which he wan run-nlriK run-nlriK coii)f with a freight going; In an opposite direction Negligence was charged on lh part of the company be-Cauae be-Cauae the train orders were mixed. |