A $20,000 Damage Suit

A $20,000 DAMAGE SUIT.

The case of Emily P. White vs. the Detroit, Grand Rapids & Western R. R. in the circuit court has been continued over the term on account of illness of the defendants' attorney, on condition that the testimony of Mrs. White may be taken at her home in Ann Arbor township before stenographer E. P. Goodrich, such testimony to be received in court in case of the death or inability of the plaintiff to appear at the trial of the case. The suit is brought to recover $20,000 damages for injuries received Oct. 27, 1897 at the depot in Detroit by Mrs. White, who was 79 years of age, by falling when she left the cars. The declaration sets up that it was dark when the train reached Detroit and that the station was not sufficiently lighted so that one could see on leaving the car that a box or extra step had been placed to assist passengers to reach the platform and that proper assistance in alighting was not offered Mrs. White.

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The slander suit of P. W. Shute, of Ypsilanti, against N. B. Trim, was turned out doors, by Judge Kinne after the case had progressed some distance. The suit was for $5,000. Thus the effort of the Ypsilanti man to trim his adversary by shuteing him through the pocket book failed. Case may, however, go to the upper bench.

Wisdom has left Milan, as an abiding place, and gone to Monroe. Urged to remain he replied, "I must go. It is the part of Wisdom." Well, perhaps--perhaps not.