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Show DEFENSE IK JEPPESON CASE The defendants in the Jcpucsou j Jaiuage suit begau tho introduction 01 testimony this morning before Judge Howt'll. the case having been beloro Uie court for a Dumber of days in the hearing of the testimony given by the plaintiff. The altornea lor tho deienjaut company state tlu;t it is possible that they may conclude the testimony iuv their side this evening, even-ing, or early tomorrow forenoon. Attorney Frank Nebeker, in outlining outlin-ing tho deien.se, btattd that the testimony testi-mony Introduced by the railroad company com-pany would show that tn February 'J, the day jiiter the alleged Injury to Miss Jeppuson, the plainlili signed a paper releasing the delendant company com-pany lrom all obligations regarding ner injuries, the receiving $50 In settlement. set-tlement. Tho attorney also stated that the testimony would show that the plaintiff was rational at the time she signed Uie release and fully understood un-derstood what she was doing; that she did not sign tho instrument under un-der any form 01 duress and that she was not "InJuced" to sign the same bv the claim agent of the defendajii company. com-pany. It was urtlier stated that thi testimony introduced by the defendant defend-ant would show that iu all likelihood the present condition of the plaintiff is not due to any injuries received at the hands of the defendant, at any time. Dr. Joyce testified this morning that be saw Miss Jcppeson at the Ogde.i depot immediately after the collision between tho passenger Iruiu and tli'-inotor tli'-inotor car of the Oregon Short Lin? company, and that she told him she was injured about the chest and lace, but did not think the injuries of much consequence. She also told the doctor doc-tor that she was on her way to Brig-ham Brig-ham City from Salt Lake to attend the funeral of her s.ster-ln-law and that she was anxious to continue her journey. The doctor stated that tho woman was not unconscious or ir-i.itional ir-i.itional and that oho appeared to be in full possession of her faculties ami understood fully all that she said and did. The witness stated that he afterwards after-wards saw tho woman in the Ogden hospital and had occasion to visit her in a medical capacity. He said that at the hospital her pulse and respiration respira-tion were normal anj that she showed no symptoms of being badly Injured She was not ill enouga to warrant prescribing medicine. Dr. Joyce disagreed from the doctors doc-tors for the plaintiff regarding the afiliction which Miss Jcppeson is suffering, suf-fering, he staling that there was no question iu his mind but that the plaintiff is suffering from hysl-ria and that Ihe ailment is not necessarily neces-sarily Incurable Drs. Gordon and Coulter claimed that. Miss Jeppeon ii MiHering paralysis aultans and thati It cannot bo cured Dr. Joyce stated stat-ed that the lady has no syrnptjuis of paralysis agitans; that in agitnns the prtlcnt. has a smooth, even, and not excessive tremor and that It always appears in both sides of the body. In hysteria, he raid, the tremor is coarse and extensive and the body moves and twitches about, such a 4 in the case of Miss Jcppeson doe Dr. Joyce also stated that Mis Jcppeson Jcppe-son is loo young to be afflicted with alUuis. il appearing in -old ago. He also said that agitnns almost Invariably Invari-ably developed In the male .-ex. while hysteria was confined mostly t) women wo-men of higli nervous tension. |