Appeal To Supreme Court

APPEAL TO SUPREME COURT

RAILROAD PROTESTS AGAINST DAMAGES AWARDED

The Plaintiff Aretus Bedell was Killed by Electric Car in 1899

The settlement of the bill of exceptions in the case of Aretus A. Bedell, who was killed by a D., Y. & A. A. electric car on Dept. 10, 1889, near Dearborn, was made Wednesday by A. J. Sawyer & Son, attorneys for the widow of the deceased, and John Lawrence and Corliss, Andrus & Leete, of Detroit, attorneys for the railway company. The case will now be taken to the supreme court.

Bedell was killed while on his bicycle, riding to Detroit from Ypsilanti, in company with two friends. His wheel had somehow or other caught in the railroad track. He had gotten off and was on the track when the car which killed him approached. The motorman shouted to him to get off the rails, but Bedell, being deaf, did not hear the warning. He was rundown by the car and instantly killed.

The widow applied for damaged, retaining Mr. Sawyer as her attorney. She was given $3,500 in the circuit court. It is from this decision that the company is now appealing.