Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 29, 1909, Page 10

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The best food for growing <. :ica is SHREDDED Contains all the material needed for building muscle, bone and brain—a food to study on, to play on, to grow on. < ] : 1 - [JUST WHAT YOU ARE WORTH ates Based on Awards in Per. sonal Injury Cases, VALUATIONS VARY IN THE COURTS | Possatble, but Not rm;.u.. to Receive Awards Amounting arter of a Million——Make & Cripples is Costly. to A live eripple Is worth more than a per- fect dead man. In other words, it is cheaper to kill a man than to cripple him. B0 say the courts and the juries, the statu- tory limit of damages that may be col- lected for death being $10,000, while there {8 no limit to the damages which a jury may assess for a personal injury. Putting it even more forcibly, a man crippled and injured in twenty-two differ- ent parts of the body is worth legally and in dollars and cents just $246,20, as against a dead man appraised at $10,000. This is rathef a cold-blooded way of putting it, but awards that have been made for various parts of the erippled yet living body prove that is the truth. Your widow might possibly collect $10,00 if you weré killed under the wheels of & street car or run over by an automobile. The circumstances of the accident would influence the minds of the twelve men se- lected to award the damages, or the mind | of the judge, it the case was decided by | bim. | But suppose that your memory has been tmpaired by a violent blow on the head, due to a fall from a car that had been started before your foot had left the plat- form. One New York jury recently gave a wife §18,000 to compensate her for the loss of her husband's memory. An even more forcible reminder that this state of affairs—one of the cruel conclusions of modern soclety—is given in this astonish- ing table, which proves how much a man's body Is worth, if he does not happen to be killed: Amount Awarded. | .8 18,000 14.000 Injury. Head . Eye ... Hearing Nose . Jaw . 8houlder Arm Wrist Fingers . PMand Side . Heart Bpine Back Rib Hip ... Thigh Leg Knee Ankle oot Rupture Total. - Balm for Pain. | If it were possible for a man to sustain | all of these damages, ‘and some men havo | nearly run that gamut, he should recover the total of nearly a quarter of a milifon dollars. The man who could sustain all of | these injuries would certainly be almost a | physical wreck. Although a mere “bag of | bones” in a literal sense, he would be | wealthy, but probably full of “pain and| suffering” for the rest of his life. Sometimes mere ‘“pain and sutfering” brings an award of $7,00 in damages, and a Texas court in the case of the Gulf Rail- road Company against Cheltan awarded a sum of $6,000 for physical disabilities. Speaking of getting rich by getting ihjured suggests that if a man, while young, could begin to sustain the list of injuries given in the table and recover at various periods, all antedating the'next injury, he might live to enjoy the fruits of his strangely acquired fortune. That would be making | money out of humanity, ‘with a vengeance. The world could certainly be sald to have “owed such a man a lving." Yet if this man had been killed by the first accident his next of kin would have been lucky If they had obtained a verdict of $10,000, the ultimate that the law per- mits to be collected for a life. Even the memory 1s rated at more than life. In the case of Stewart against the Long Island rallway, the skull of a young woman was tractured in an accident. The jury de- cided that {t was due to the negligence of the employes and for the loss of memory that resulted from the injury, which ex-| perts thought might be permanent, she was awarded $15,000 and the court of final review considered that the verdict was not excessive. This phase of the worth of a| |ive man's crippled body, adjudged from the damage to the different parts, presents | a curious study in jurisprudence. | A man's evesight, for instance, has not oeen deemed as valuable as his memory. {n a Minnesota case, a man whose right eye had been made wholly blind by dam- age sustained in a wreck and whose left eye was declared by expert testimony, to | be nine-tenths damaged, collected $14,000. | In some states the value of the eyes differ. Ilinols eyes only brought $9,000, and both were rendered totally bilud. In Texas, | total blindness as the resuit of a rallway accident, received a reward of $7,500. Broken noses came rather low in the | scale of values. Not only was the nose n!} |a man named Crockett mashed flat, but | his teeth were knocked out, yet a Texas | jury only gave him solace of $30. The | verdict probably was reached by compro- mise. It s a serious thing to break a | man's jaw, when it is done in California. | One Boyce sued the California Stage com- pany for breaking his jaw and dislocating | his shoulder blade. Although Boyce was a | 1aborer, the jury gave him $1660. A man's | | shoulder was judicially valued at $7.500 by a Colorado court. A young woman's arm, broken In a New York rallway accident, | | brought a collection of $18,00. The arm | | could not be straightened out aud was iIn- capable of perfect movement. An arm | brought $15.000 in an Illinols court, because | the loss of the arm was coupled with in- | | tense suffering on the part of the man who had lost it | A Texas railroad man, who proved that but for the loss of an arm he would have | been promoted, recetved $14.000. The juries ‘!N\m to take into consideration the effect a man's injuries are likely to have on his earning capacity. An fnjuy to the wrist which caused a New York man to keep | his hand in & plaster cast for five weeks | | was wvalued at $.%0, but an Jowa man, | whose hand was injured in a railroad wreck | recovered $11000. Mo was regularly em- | ployed at the time of the accldent and, al- though his salary was only $540 a year, he was in line for regular promotion Sentiment Counts. Injuries to the heart may be physical well a5 sentimental. A California man, who was so mashed In a wreck that he con | tracted heart disease. was awarded 32,00 damages. The plaintiff, Storrs, was 1 | years of age, but he was in good health before the accident. He also had extensive business interests, which suffered by rea- son of the injury to his health. Two dif- ferent Texas courts have assessed injuries to the spine at $20,000. This award, made first in the case of one Nass against & rallroad company, seemed to establish a precedent, for the same award was made later in the case of Coote egainst a tele- graph company. Woodbuy, & physielan, whose practice was worth §.500 & year, received an injury to his back which shook up his entire Hundreds of them — suits that en- courage the utmost comfort in siz- zling weather--will be entered in our olossal Special Selling Tomorrow For $12.50 'Serges Real $20.00 If you pay $12.50 we will reward you with a blue serge be touched around town for suit that cannot Smart, highly tatlored products All made of Washington Mills serge double breasted styles; some with fancy bottom trousers, serge or mohair lined, sizes 33 to 50, in regulars, stouts, slims, and extra sizes. 893 Sample Hats from a Danbury, Conn., Mfgr. must go At $1.50 99¢ day sacrifice! 893 men's soft and stiff hats for a Satur- And think of it, those very late “Trooper’” shapes and greens, olives and sllver greens are among them. They're hats that must bring to $3 for exclusive hatters, but our method of merchandising brings 'em down to $1.50 and 95c. These, mind you blue serges, tailored Single or double 3-plece; In sizes of a lot of 135 34 suits breasted styles; are finely woven, all wool, fast to a nicety and lined with serge some 2plece; some luckily possessed to sell them at to 42. ; we are We are willing $7.50 even though the same styles cannot be duplicated under $10 to $12.50. Serges at s less than $20 of a maker known the country over. all wool-—fadeless Single or cuffed sleeves and cuffed 12.50 Union Suits for Men are un- derpriced as never before At, Per Garment 90c No excuse now. lar. in summer. for a depleted underwear supply Tomorrow we gell for a “half”, men's union suits that should be bringing a fall dol- Fine ribbed lisle finished garments that will wear to the limit on tightly—the welght i{s the one you wear The buttons are sewed One more chance to buy Men’s Treusers at as little as 95¢ Don’t pay $4 for spring and outing trousers, while .we sell the latest capers, peg tops and all, at $1.95. These in grays, tans, olives, blues, etc. Then, too, at 95¢ we offer pants plenty good enough for every-day wear. Mere of those nobby Men’s Shoes at $2.49—they’re $3.50 kinds We’ve revised the Men’s 8hoe business of Omaha. Where formerly a man paid $3.50 he now comes here and secures an equal and in many cases a better shoe at merely $2.49. See the late high toe lasts —and the newest oxfords. “G. A. R.” Suits in = lbetler cloths and Jaster blues are here Jor less money. Geta good suit at $9.90 CLOTHING COMPANY COR..14® & DOUGLAS Genuine Green Trading Stamps with each purchase here whether on the ad- vertised items or not. nervous system, so that he was not able to look after his patlents. He collected $16,000 from the District of Columbia. The legal value of a fractured rib has been placed at $5,000. A man named Clark re celved twice that sum from the Brooklyn Heights Rallway company for two broken ribs and consequent pleurisy and nervous tremors. When we get Into the list of hips and legs the damages mount very rapidly. An Alabama court awarded one Crowder $15,- 000 -for a fractured hip joint. A pilot who sustained a broken thigh while taking a trolley trip in New York was given $10,000. The court of review declared that the ver- dict was within reason. But out in Iowa a man who had his thigh broken in two places only collected $7.0%. Partlal paraly- sis and permanent disablement of a leg brought $30000 In the shape of a verdict from a sympathetic jury. The plaintift was | business man, 3 years of age, who was and after | | In the case of one minor son who was so | unable to walk for three year ten vears his leg had only power. A Wisconsin jury sum to a one-fourth its paid the man named Heddes, same who had both his legs amputated as the result of a | railway accident. A collected 36,60 from a company that smashed one of his knees. The drummer had been earning $100 a month and his earning capacity had been impatred. Vagaries of Juries, One Texas man, who earned $210 a day, suffered the smashing of one of his ankles and he collected §,000, although It was stated that be would not be able to earn the same amount again in his lifetime, and the same amount was collected by a young woman for fractures of the ankle and foot. A foot, however, 1s worth more than an ankle. A railway engineer named Ashley, whose foot was so badly mashed that it was amputated, collected a verdict of $16,- 000 from a rallway company. The jury may commercial traveler Listen To ~Yom' Pains. Aches and Warnings Pains of Are Nature's Trouble Ahead. Mental and physical sickness are ex actly like the breaking down of the loaded wagon the tracks. The hin dered traffic represents the state of mind body under diseased conditions Our aches and pains are nature's warning that we have violated the of life and health and soon we must pay unless we heed Most ills can be traced directly or indi rectly to the stomach or digestive tract Eat right and it's 10 to 1 that you will be right in health, and health m ns wealth Don't load your stomach with heavy foods such as meats and bread and pota toes in the morning. Try E-C Corn Flakes or Egg-O-See Wheat Flakes with good milk or cream and perhaps & little fresh or stewed fruit You'll lke it—it's good s0 crisp and deliclous—easy to digest ready to serve. Children grow strong and heaithy on it Invalids find it acceptable and nourishing and busy men and women find they can do & day's work without the hindrance of & sour stomach or an aching head if they eat it. Remember it's the wonderful Egs- O-See process that makes it so good to eat and so easy to digest across car laws | were necessary going at the same ti i be ethical | most | they | & ratiway | ticket | to put | for her fare have taken his earning capacity into con- sideration, since he was drawing wages | of $175 a month A big toe was officlally placed at $2,900 by a Chicago jury, in a very odd personal damage suit. A Bouth Side man named | Stanley went to a chiropodist, but the | treatment was fatal to St s big toe The jury defied the jokes of the defend- ant's counsel brought in the verdict The step from toes to ‘physical wrecks" | 18 a long one, and it is a wide one in the amounts of damages that juries have al- lowed. For Instance, in Texas and Minne- sota, the verdicts have been widely apart. A Texas jury gave a man in this condition $10,000, while the northern jury permitted the victim, almost a helpless cripple, to | collect $26,000. Dr. Shelton, another Texas plaintiff, was given a verdirt of $3%.000 against a railroad company that had left him a helpless cripple. Loss of services of a minor has an es- tablished value in the minds of jurymen. | and rlously injured that he could not work | for nineteen months the jury gave the| parent $1,027, which was less than $& a | month, although the testimony showed that the young man was earniug $80 a month. A man 4 years of age, who was earning $80 to $% a month was so badly hurt that he was unable to earn anything. He obtalned & verdict of §16,600 against a Chicago street car company. “Pain and suffering” has heen appratsed | at $7.000 Ly an Jowa court, which awarded that amount to a child who was injured in wreck. One Texas jury made a company pay $2.020 for njured in the case of a woman passenger who had a row with the conductor over her ticket. The official did not think the was properly signed and threatened the passenger off the train unless she put up her watch and chain as security Nothing is sald in the report & to what the rallway company did to the onductor. Puoshing a Large Job, If a man could have Il these things happen to him and keep all the suits that he o0, rallway feelings, collect at of old last least a $2 surt grind he | as Methuseleh | of them, and to die. Although it may not for lawyers to take these per- on a contingent fee ¢ them follow this rule. Many times | take half eum allowed by the | verdict, and when the verdicts ae high as $15000 and $20000, It does not take long | for a lawyer to make a large income | Securing large verdict in a personal | Injury case is not always the chief aim of | the lawyer. It is not a difficult thing to| work on the sympathies of a jury and get heavy damages against a corporation. The attorney who takes this kind of case must keap the higher courts in mind all the time. The point of view of upper ourts {s such that sentiment is lost in the legal reasoning. The attorney must guard against errors and watch himself at every step of the procedure that the clever oppoeing counsel do not find a flaw upon which to ask for a retrial Aside from the Interesting histories of personal damage cases, the valuations that | have been placed on different parts of a human being's anatomy are amusing, even though the cases are indeed serlous to the victims and their families. Yet, despite the wide diversity In the values that have been placed on the different members of the living victim's body, the way in which probably would but in the probat before then natural cc would be he collected the ready sonal damage suits the run these | for a spine | 000,000, they range Is remarkably sound, since 1t| rafirond mileage of Great Britain, Fr you take the damage that was assessed for loss of memory at $18,000 as against that given for a foot, or the amount given as contrasted with that awarded for a hand, the verdicts seem to accord with the usefulness of the members and the extent of the injury as it affects the general healths of the victims.—St. Republie, |MEASURE OF NATION'S UPLIFT| Wonderful Wealth of United States Outlined in Round Figures, today 80,000,000 of people, 3,000,000 square We have cupying oc- miles of territory, and they own $120,000,000000 of wealth. On farms valued at $25,000000,000 we annually agricultural products valued at $,- 000,000,000, It nothing that we produce annually 2,500,000,000 bushels of 11,000,000 bales of cotton, if there is no de- mand for corn and cotton and if the de- mand is not a fair return. But we have the market. Our 550,000 of people Who produce $15,000,000,0000 of manufacturer pro- ducts annually, and recelve in wages $23),~ make the market. These figures apply only to finished product. We get he products to the consumer by 250,00 miles of rallroad, which is three times the Louls | produce | corn and | ance and Germany combined. When side tracks are taken into account, we have more -ail- road mileage than all the rest of the world On these railroads we have 100,000 eng carrying milllons of cars and hauling 2,000, 000,000 tons of frelght. This practically equals all the tornage carried by all the rallroads and ships of all the rest of the | world. This monstrous task is performed by 65000 of employes who are yearly pald $2,300,000,000, and this vast business is cenducted by $160,000,000,000 of bank clear- ances. Do we prosper? Only two decades ago were second to Great Britain in the output of iron and steel. Today our output equals all the rest of the world. We live well and have happy homes, filled with comforts and luxuries. Yet we are a saving people. We have in savings banks 500,000,000, in national banks $4,500,000,000, and In state banks $5,000,000,000—in all, $13, 000,000,000. The per capita of money in tho country Is larger than in any other save one, France; and amounts to $35 for each of our 80,000,000 people. The business of the country unts to over $3,000,000,000 an nually. How do we do such a monstrous business which is also profitable? It ause we confidence in oursel |and the other nations of the globe have | contidence in us.—~Vice President Sherman in Leslie's Weekly, we is have { Come to the Seattle t Exposition by way of the Colorado Rockies, the Switzerland of America, Grand Canyon of Arizona, the world’s scenic wonder, Coronado Beach, tent-city- “aby-the-sea, and Yosemitd, b «in the high Sierras. They all are Far West wonders you ought to see this year, Low excursion fares all summer, Special The SantaFeisthe e to California, and the train parties, personally conducted, clest summer route plcasantest, Six trains to choose from, including the luxurious Colorado Flyer. Ask for California Limited and the speedy Fred Harvey meal service, our special summer books about Colorade, Grand_Canyon, California, Yosemite, N. E. A., G.A.R., Elksand Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Expositions Samuel Larimer, Gen. Agent, A. T. & 8. F, Ry, 406 Bisth Avenue, Des Moines, lowa.