Show I Iv VERDICT m J GIVING IVIN DAMA DAMAGES T TO TOr r NW NEWSBOY B J I I UPHELD Judgment of the District Court Awarding 1500 to Godfrey Badertscher Affirmed by Justices JUDGMENT of the district J JUDGMENT J court of Salt Lake county in in awarding Godfrey J. J Badertscher 1500 damages for personal injuries injuries in injuries in- in juries against the Wasatch Coal company is affirmed in a majority opinion of ot the state supreme court handed down today The opinion Is written by Justice J.E. JE J J. E E. l Trick rick and concurred In by Justices Weber Thurman and Chief Justice Corfman Justice Valentine Gideon filed a dissenting dissenting dissenting dis dis- dis- dis opinion holding that the appeal should be dismissed d rather than the judgment of the lower court affirmed This makes the result practically the same Both opinions are on grounds largely technical Badertscher a newsboy for morning papers while delivering papers in November No- No No November November vember 1917 ran Into a wagon tongue protruding across the sidewalk at some distance above that sidewalk He lIe was thrown off his bicycle and sustained sustained sustained sus sus- serious injuries The obstruction obstruction obstruction tion the evidence showed was part of ot ofa ota a wagon loaded with coal being delivered delivered delivered ered to a customer by the Wasatch Coal company The coal company lacking teams had an arrangement with the Independent Ice company for drivers teams and running gear of ot wagons The ice company was made defendant In the lower court but the action against it was dismissed The ice company was not served with notice notice notice no no- no- no tice of ot appeal and it is largely on this ground that Justice Gideon dissents holding that the Ice company was really really really real real- ly acting as stevedore |