A Dexter Damage Suit

A Dexter Damage Suit.

Mary E. Ball has entered suit against the Michigan Central Railway Company for $10,000 damages for injuries caused by falling on the depot grounds on the night of January 5, 1892. The accident, as described in legal phraseology, was as follows: "Wholly because of the fault and negligence of the said defendant, the plaintiff stepped, slipped, walked and did fall into said holes, excavations, pits and pitfalls against and upon said switches, frogs, tracks, ties, rails and grounds, striking upon her hands, arms, face, body and limbs, and thereby and by reason thereof said plaintiff then and there received and sustained severe temporary and permanent injuries, bruises, wounds, cuts, incisions, lacerations and contusions in and upon her arms, limbs, head, face and body and in consequence of said injuries became sore, sick, lame and languishing and suffered great pain in body and mind from thence hereto."