Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-10-18 | Page 7 | Claims Trainmen Were Incompetent

CLAIMS TRAIH WERE INCOMPETENT It was expected that the suit of H. W, Dunn against the Southern Pacific Pa-cific Railroad company and T. F. Rowlands Row-lands would go to the jury in Judge J. A. Howell's division of the district court late today. Hearing of the suit was started last week, after a postponement post-ponement had been decided on In the hearing of the suit of Walter Blake for a divorce from Daisy Blake. The latter case was continued until today but it was decided to dispose of the damage case before proceedings were resumed. The damage suit is one in which the plaintiff seeks to collect $2065 for damages to a cargo of horses Injured In-jured in transit over the company's lines from California to the markets in East St. Louis, 111. In the complaint, com-plaint, the plaintiff charges that the horses that made up the cargo valued at an approximate $8,000 were in-jred in-jred the careless handling of the train in the hands of Incompetent trainmen between the stations of Car-lin Car-lin and Montello, Nevada. T. F. Rowlands was made a co-defendant in the case because his position posi-tion of superintendent of the Salt Lake division of the Southern Pacific, over which line the horses were hauled, made him a party to the al-legal al-legal carelessness on the part of the railroad by employing alleged incompetent incom-petent trainmen.