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Show TWO DAMAGE SUITS ARE FILED COREY BROS. CONSTRUCTION CO. SUED FOR LARGE SUM Complicated Cases 'to Be Tried In Judge Howell's Court on Complaint Com-plaint of Certain Heirs Two damage suits for personal injury in-jury wero filed in Judge Howell's court yesterday against the Corey Bros. Construction company to recover alleged al-leged damages in the sums of $10,000 and $15,000 respectively. The first suit is brought by Michael Farino, administrator ad-ministrator of the estate of Mariana Farino, deceased, in behalf of the only surviving heir at law, Guleeppe Farino, the father of the deceased. The complaint com-plaint alleges that on the 23rd of February, Feb-ruary, 1907, Mic'nael Farino lost his life by virtue of a promature explosion while he was under the employment of the Corey Brothers company on the Western Pacific railroad In California, and the accident was occasioned through the negligence of the defend ant company. It Is alleged that Farino was acting in the capacity of foreman fore-man for the company at the time of the accident and that the explosion was occasioned by overheated rocks at the point where the blasting was being done. . - The plaintiff in the second 6uit is the same party except that the administrator admin-istrator is suing for the estate of Michael Mich-ael Marrionlcci, deceased. In behalf of the surviving heirs, a wife and two children. The allegations in this complaint com-plaint have to do with the same accident acci-dent as alleged in the former complaint, com-plaint, but claiming the death of the deceased on the ground that Michael Farino was an incompetent foreman and should not have been in charge of the work in question. |