Brown Claim Against N&W Railroad, 1889

Claim dated August 28, 1889 for John Brown against N&W Railroad for the
killing of his horse

??? County) to wit

... C. Rhoads, Constable of said County, you are hereby commanded to summon 
?? Kuling, agent or personal representative of the Norfolk & Western Rail 
Road Company, if to be found in your County to appear at the office of 
William Kirby, Justice in said County, on the 10th day of September 1889, 
before me or such other Justice of said County as may then be there to try 
this warrant, to answer the complaint of John Brown upon a claim of money, 
to wit, for the sum of fifty dollars due for one horse killed by a Norfolk 
& Western Rail Road train in said County on or near the 20th day of June 
1889, and also upon a claim for ten dollars damage from loss of the labor of
the said horse; in all the claim being for the sum of sixty dollars ($60) 
and then and there make return of this warrant.  Given under my hand this 
28th day August 1889.

			William Cassedy, Justice of the Peace

John Brown   Joe Mason
Horse valued at $20.00 [in Joe Mason's handwriting]
Joe Mason
Albert Allison

Transcribed by Jim Sulcer
March 13, 1999


Submitted by The Wilderness Road Regional Museum
http://www.rootsweb.com/~vapulask/wrrm/



****************************************************************

USGENWEB NOTICE:  These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in
any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or
persons.  Persons or organizations desiring to use this material,
must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal
representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb
archivist with proof of this consent. Files may be printed or copied
for personal use only.

****************************************************************