Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-10-22 | Page 9 | Butler Damage Suit Continued

BUTLER DAMAGE SUIT CONTINUED Case Expected to Go on Sev eral Days: $30,500 Sought Two or three day? will be consumed before the case of George H. But!, r. as administrator for the estate of Or-mand Or-mand H. Butler, against the Orecon Short Line railroad will be eompkt. ed. according to estimates made this morning. Th plaintiff Is suing the railroad for damages totaling f!0,500 for the death of Ormand Butler and the destrucUon of his automobile I when a train struck the ear .it the Twelfth street crossing in March, 1919. The plaintiff SMkl 180,000 for the death of Mr llutli-r ;nd 1600 for wreckage of the automobile. The case is belnc beard before a Jury in Ju!l-. A. E. Pratt's division if the district court. Taking of testimony of witness for the plaintiff has now concerned two days and there are still several additional addi-tional witnesses to be examined, it Is Said The defense will then presetll witnesses and cross-examine, thos who have taken the stand An attempt Is beinc made by the plaintiff to show that the tram was proceeding at a rate of sixty miles an hour when it reached the crossing and no warninc wms given such us the blowing of a whittle or the sounding of a bell. The railroad company maintains main-tains that Mr. Butler, in approarhinc the crossing, had an unobstructed view of the tracks and claims the accident was due to his carelessness and through no fault of the railroad or Its employes. The jurors inrthe case are: Leroy Buchmiller, H, C. Farrell. Lionel In-gebretson, In-gebretson, G. Morris Flowers. Walter L Stephen, John Doxey and Charles S Murphy