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Show Don Fo-mswonh Cats $9,500. The jury in the case of I '.in Farm-worth Farm-worth vs. the Union Pacific Coal coin pany rendered a verdict at 9 o'clock last Thursday night for the plaint" in the sum of 1(1,500. Tbe amount asked for was (25.000, Tbe evidence, which occupied tbe Federal Fed-eral ourt at Salt Lake for several days went to show that Farnswortb, a man ot family, about 30 years of age, was employed em-ployed to run a car in one ot tbe company's com-pany's miues. It waa bis duty to signal the engineer from this car by means of a system of wires when anything went wrong. On one occasion, when a car got off the track, he reached out to give the signal to stop, when his brad came in contact with a heavy projection on the side wall, and he was thrown under the car, Tha wheels passed over one leg, necessitating amputation, and he was otherwise crushod and permanently injured. The plaintiff and hie family were overjoyed over-joyed by the announcement ol the verdict, ver-dict, for since tha accident Mr. Farnswortb Farns-wortb haa been In desperate straits and his physical condition will not admit of his making a living. |