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Show FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS IS DEMANDED BY BOY liolman Lawhorn, by his guardian, J. W. L.awnorn. Is. demanding $50,000 of tho Donvcr & Rio Grande Railway company for Ihc loss of his right leg and a part of his left foot, In a suit filed in tho district dis-trict court Thursday. The accident on which the suit is based occurred near Bingham Canyon September 2 this year. The railway company. com-pany. It Is said, had been In tho habit of allowing children to ride on its trains for pleasure and when a. freight train Btopped on Its way Into Bingham Canyon Can-yon for a few minutes the L,awhorn lad, with Ills companions, attempted to board it. Tho engineer, to keep tho lads off. started the train with a jerk and threw the Lawhorn youth underneath the wheels. Ills right leg was crushed off above the knee and the front part of his left foot was mashed off. it Is alleged. |