. The street railway review . erous cases, and involvean element of risk which can be avoided by a settlement. A case against the Philadelphia Traction Companyrecently tried shows how juries sympathize with injuredpersons. Adam Clark Tietz got a verdict for $27,000in the Common Pleas Court for having the skin of hisnose scratched. The three judges of (he court refusedto grant a new trial. An appeal was taken to the supremecourt which reminded the trial judge that he should haveinstantly set aside the verdict when it was rendered,because it was in plain violation of the law, the evidenceand the
. The street railway review . erous cases, and involvean element of risk which can be avoided by a settlement. A case against the Philadelphia Traction Companyrecently tried shows how juries sympathize with injuredpersons. Adam Clark Tietz got a verdict for $27,000in the Common Pleas Court for having the skin of hisnose scratched. The three judges of (he court refusedto grant a new trial. An appeal was taken to the supremecourt which reminded the trial judge that he should haveinstantly set aside the verdict when it was rendered,because it was in plain violation of the law, the evidenceand the equities involved. The judges of the supremecourt said : The jar occasioned by the collision did notjostle any other passenger from his position, but theplaintiff, who was standing on the rear platform, wasthrown forward against the glass window in front of him,and the skin was broken along the ridge of his nose bycontact with the glass. No other injury was visible orwas complained of at the time. 584 <^ti^j\aiWay-lJ^cV^^. The Partridge Carbon Company, of Sandusky, O.,reports that its sales this year are double those of lastyear. Louis W. Hodges, Room 6, No. 67 Federal street,Boston, has been appointed assignee of the ReliableManufacturing Company. Allen, of Philadelphia, have the contractfor the line construction of the Washington & GreatFalls Electric Railway Company, Washington, D. C. The Bates Machine Company, Joliet, 111., is runningits shops night and day with orders eight months new catalog of the Bates-Corliss engine is inter-esting. The Bass Foundry and Machine Company, ,Ind., will furnish the Lake Street Elevated Railroad,Chicago, with 240 No. 2 Krupp steel tired 33-inch motorcar wheels. The Empire Electric Insulation Company, of Schenec-tady, N. Y., is now under the sole management ofWilliam M. Stewart, his partner, G. H. Rupley, havingretired from the business. J. H. Vail,New York, having been chosen as its con-sulting engineer, is
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