Unfortunate Railway Company
A Massachusetts lady was badly, used in a railway accident, she lost one arm, and the other was rendered useless, her health and memory were impaired, and she was henceforth in constant pain. The jury who investigated her injury considered her form •divine very valuable, and awarded her $10,000 damages. The railway company thought the sum out of all proportion to the value, and so craved from the Court a new trial, and got . it. The second jury had a still higher j -opinion of Mrs Shaw, the lady in question, or at least of those parts of her which were injured and gone than the first jurymen, . and gave $18,000 Again the unfortunate company (which though it had no soul to be damned, still had shareholders to •damn) rushed to the Court for relief, ■and the judges, doubtless, older men -and more cognisaat of the vanity and frailty of women, ordered a new trial. Again a dozen men weighed in the balance of their minds, suspended on their oaths and sighs and tears, the aches and pains the lost bones and £esh.of the persistent but now sadly defective woman, and these good men and true said $22,500 would be the amount to give for compensation. The <3ourt then gaye way declining to interfere any further, and the poor com- . gwny had to aubmit.
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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 136, 10 May 1890, Page 3
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227Unfortunate Railway Company Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 136, 10 May 1890, Page 3
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