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Show RECALLS AN' ACCIDENT at mm -. After remaining in thp court 6ince the early part of mo7, the case of William Morgan, administrator of the estate of David Morgan, deceased, against the Southern Pacific company, com-pany, was taken up for trial this morning before Judge Howell. The complaint alleges that Tames W. Morgan, son of the deceased, David Morgan, while In the employ of the Southern Pacific company as car cleaner at the Ogden depot April A, 1907, was Instantly killed by two cars being pushed together, crushing his bend between them. The statement in the complaint regarding re-garding the details of the accident is thnt Morgan had occasion to pass between two cars of the defendant company that were standing in tho depot yard, and that wh?n he was between be-tween thera an engine of the railroad compauy suddenly pushed them together, to-gether, and Mr. Morgan's head was caught between the vestibules of the cars and was crushed uutll life In hU body was extinct. The matter of securing a Jurv to hear the case was taken up at tho opening of court this morning, the attorneys at-torneys for the plaintiff stating that in all probability their side of the case would not. lie concluded until some time tomorrow. The original amount sued for was $25,0i)O. The plaintiff was a single man 23 years of age, his home being in Idaho. The father, David Morgan, died since the accidental killing of young Morgan and a brother, William Morgan, and the mother, are suing In behalf of the estate of the deceased father. A question of jurisdiction arose in the first trlnl and the case was dismissed, dis-missed, the second complaint being filed in J SOS. asking damages for only $1,975, which Is the issue Ik? fore tho court today. The mother and administrator ad-ministrator are now residents of this county and the case conies clearly within the jurisdiction of the Second District court. |