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Show VERDICT IS SET ASIDE UPON II TECHNICALITY Mrs. Christine Piigmirc Loses Suit Against Railroad in Supreme Court. The Supremo Court Saturday reversed re-versed tho Second District. Court, sitting sit-ting at Ogden, iu the case of Mrs. Christine Pugmirc, respondent, vs. the Oregon Short Line Railroad company, appellant; and directed a new trial to ho had. Mrs. Pugmirc wns given $3500 damages for alleged personal injuries in tho lower court. Pcvcrsal is had becanso the trial court admitted cvidonce that in tho accident ac-cident complained of plaintiff suffered an injnry to her eyesight, and that such injury was not alleged in her complaint. com-plaint. Several other assignments of. error made by the railroad company were overruled and th case reversed on this singlo ground alone. 1 The accident, occurred atr "Williams, Mont.. Juno 22, 1905. The plaintiff and her husbniid wero conducting a commissary- car for a construction camp, and this car, it; is alleged, was run down by an ongine, while it was standing on a sidetrack. The opinion reversing the caso was written by Chief Justice McCarty. and concurred in by the other incmljc.rfl of the court. The opinion lays down the following rule: "All damages which naturally and ordinarily result; from wrongful acts alleged and the injuries described in tho complaint may be shown without being specially alleged; all others, though tlie3' bo the natural result of tho alleged wrongful acts, yet are such which do not usually or ordinarily result, therefrom, or froin the injuries which aro alleged and described,' must bo spocilically alleged to admit proof thereof and to permit a recovery of damages therefor." |