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Show SPLIT EAR IS CAUSE OF DAMAGE ACTION For the alleged splitting of his ear with a shovel, Thomas Austin filed suit in the Third district court yesterday to recover $5000 damages, the defendants being the I : Midvale Minerals company and Geoge i , Furman, nn employee of the company,; , alleged to have wielded the shovel. No-' No-' vcmber 20. 1916, is given as the date of j the alleged attack. Austin alleges that Furman attacked him with a shovel on the pretext th;it the plaintiff had violated a rule of the company prohibiting smoking on the grounds. He attests that he was InwHrlv upon the grounds and that Furman used 1 the shovel In hid efforts to put him oif with such effect that one of the plaintiff's t ears was slit in a manner to disfigure I him for life. |