$25,000 Damages Are Asked

Albert F. Mayers, who was hurt on January 7, 1902, in a collision between one of the cars on the Ann Arbor & Jackson Ry, with the Michigan Central depot, has brought suit against the company for $25,000 damages. 

The declaration was filed Saturday by his attorneys, A.J. Sawyer & Son.

Mayers was a motorman on the car to which the accident occurred and the declaration sets up that the company is liable for not having provided the car with sand boxes and sand and the proper machinery and tools to stop the car when running down an incline. That they should have cleared away the ice and snow from the tracks on the slope from Division street to the Michigan Central depot on Detroit street. 

It seems that the care ran away and smashed into the depot, seriously injuring Mr. Mayers. He is said to have had several surgical operations in consequence and to be injured permanently. One count alleges that the defendant company never had instructed the plaintiff how to manage the cars but, on the contrary, had said that they were perfectly safe on the incline.