Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-01-19 | Page 7 | Brostrom Damage Case on before Judge Harris

oo I ! BROSTROM DAMAGE 1 CASE ON BEFORE JUDGE HIS In Judge N. J. Harris' division of the district court this morning, the personal injury case of Anna Bros-trom, Bros-trom, guardian ad litem for Anna Brostrom et al, minors, against the Lynch-Cannon Engineering company, and the Blacksmith Fork Light & Power company, was taken up for hearing and Harry B. Sawyer, Fred J. Palmer, David George Shorten, J. M. Bishop, John W. Allen. A. M, Miller, Mil-ler, Heber Lund and Hyrum Goodale selected as jurymen. The suit Is for 20,000 damages for the alleged death of Niels Brostrom which occurred October 4, 1912. The complaint alleges that Mr. Brostrom was employed by the defendant companies com-panies slacking lime and mixing mor-tor mor-tor and carrying It to the masons on a certain building in Blacksmith's Fork canyon in Idaho, and that while so employed certain scaffolding on which he was working, broke and he fell a distance of about 30 feet, causing caus-ing Injuries from which he died. The plaintiff claims that the scaffolding scaf-folding was carelessly constructed, and that it was through the negligence negli-gence of the defendant companies that Mr. Brostrom was killed I