Ogden Daily Standard | 1909-02-04 | Page 8 | Fifteen Thousand is Value Put on Thumb

FIFTEEN THOUSAND IS VALUE PUT ON THUMB Salt Lake, Feb. 4. Fifteen thousand dollars Is tho price set upon one thumb by Daniel D. Stouffer In a personal Injury In-jury damage suit against the San Pedro, Pe-dro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railway company, filed In the district court Wednesday. Stouffer lost his thumb while he was employed by the defendant company a an Iron worker upon construction work,-' eleven miles ft-om Calle.nte, Nev., October 7, 1908, he 6ay6. An Incompetent In-competent stationary engineer holat-ed holat-ed a hood on a derrick too high and struck Stouffer upon the right hand with it, injuring the thumb so badly that amputation was necessary, December De-cember 8 following the accident Ths company should have employed a competent com-petent engineer, besides providing a rope Instead of a steel cablte for the derrick, Stouffer alleges, and ho asks for $15,000 damages.