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Show DOLLAR A DAY FOR REST OF HER LIFE CHICAGO, Oct. 27. A dispatch to the Record-Herald from St. Louis, Mo., says: Mrs. Sarah J. Westervelt yesterday was awarded damages of $1 a day for the rest of her life, estimated at fifteen years, In her suit sgalnst the St. Louis Transit and United Railways company, for Injuries received in a street car collision. She is 64 years old. Judge Barclay, before whom the suit was tried, figured with insurance actuaries, actu-aries, and in his address gave the Jury the estimate of the plaintiff's life term, which serveoras the basis of the verdict. |