Two Damage Claims

Two new claims for daiiiages have been filed with the oity clerk against the city of Ann Arbor. In view of the recent decisión of Jndge Carpeuter in the Wayne circuit oourt in the damage snit of Edson Wetherbee vs. the Michigan Central Railway, in which he disrnised the case, the plaintiff Wetherbee has trnasferred bis claim from the railroad company to the city, and now asks the conncil to give him f5,000 damages for injuries received by bim on the Detroit at, bridge. Mr. Wetherbee at the same time has appealed Judge Carpenter's decisión to the supreme conrt. The second case is that of Nioholas Miller, who, through his attorneys, Lehman & Stivers, files a olaim for 000 for injuries sustained on a defeutive sidewalk on Miller ave. The bill sets forth tbat Miller had the tibia and fibala of his right leg broken, and alleges the injniy kept him ooDfined to his bed for 10 weeks and that he is still uuable to perform manual labor. Unless each of these modest claims for damages is allowed by the connoil, an action at law will iu each case be commenoed. The claims will coiné op before the comruou conncil at fta meeting Monday eveniug.