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Show oo 530.500 SUIT IS OPENED HERE Ormond H. Butler Suing Railroad Rail-road Administration for Death of G. H. Butler I The Initial Jur" case Of the present month opened this morning In Judg A K. I'ratt's division of the district OOUrt. The case is thai of Oeorg- II llutb-r. administrator of the estate of 0 It Bullet who was killed bj ai legon Short Line train at the Twi :ft 'street corsslng Murch 1. 1919, again: : to I'ntted tSutc railroad al mlnUt r - lion. Damages of SS0.000 are asked for the death of the man and an itddl- tlonal amount of faOO Is sought for, damages to the automobile w hich It I Is claimed, was a total wreck. it is set forth In the complaint lha' Mr. Butler was drlvtne eastward on Twelfth strt-et across the rallroau j tracks when a train approached at the speed of sixty miles an hour. It is I charged that there was no warning Kiv.-n such as the blowing of a whistle or the sounding of a bell. The train. It Is alleged, struck the automobile, hurling Mr. Butler to the ground and killing : 1m almost Instantly In-stantly In answer to the complaint thei railroad company avta forth that Mr Butler had an unobstructed view of Bl tracks before- crossing and claims that It was through his negligence and and not by any reason of the drfend- lrapanelllng of a Jurv consumed I 1 most of (h morning rinn of the I bearing today and It Is poJoUbl that I jtetimon will b taken lata this after-1 noon oo |