Two Suits Against The Lake Shore

Charles A. Sloat, of Manchester, has begun a suit in tbe circuit court against the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad for $1,000. The suit was occassioned by the passenger train on the Jackson branch of the Lake Shore striking Sloat's team while he was driving across-the track on July 25, 1892, killing one horse and disabling the other and throwing himself and son out of the wagon. The bill sets up that the train was running at an unlawful rate of speed and that no warning of its approach around a curve was given, Lehman Bros., are aftorneys for the plaintiff. On the same day, Addison R. Smith, through Lehman Bros., brought suit for $20,000 against the Lake Shore for injuries received in a collision in 1891 between Yermillim and Elyria in which he received severe injuries to his back.