Earl Wilson (-1910)

WILSON

Posted By: Dennis and Gail Bell (email)
Date: 3/9/2006 at 13:59:44

WILSON, EARL (-1910)

THE MAXWELL TRIBUNE, Maxwell, Iowa, Thursday, June 12, 1913, page 1. “WINS IN HIGHER COURT. – On Monday, June 9th, Atty. I. W. Douglass received notice from the supreme court that his case of Anna M. Wilson vs. the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway company was affirmed, thus sustaining the judgment his client, Anna M. Wilson, as plaintiff and administratrix, had obtained in the trial of the case in the district court of Story county wherein she obtained judgement against the defendant railway company for personal injuries sustained by her son, Earl Wilson, which resulted in his death on July 24, 1910. Earl Wilson will be remembered as the young man who was killed on the crossing, three miles east of Collins, by an extra passenger train carrying excursionists, the accident occurring about three o’clock in the morning. The affair was not witnessed by anyone and the trainmen learned of the accident only from the debris of the buggy striking te cab of the engine and upon slowing up and going back the trainmen found the lifeless form of Mr. Wilson in the wreckage of the buggy, while the horse was thrown through the cattle guard wing fence, a distance of ninety feet to the north and east of the crossing. Both Mrs. Wilson and Attorney Douglass are to be congratulated upon the successful termination of this case as the railway company put up a good fight, contending they were not liable for the death of this young man and the case was ably presented to the supreme court both by oral and written arguments, by counsel, both for the defendant and plaintiff.”