Lucama Widow Gets $6,000 After 1915 Accident, Nov. 8, 1921

Lucama Widow Gets $6,000 in Compromise. . . Her Two Daughters Get $1,000 Each—Husband Was Killed in Railroad Accident

Wilson, Nov. 4—In Superior Court here this morning on a compromise verdict Mrs. I.M. Williamson of Lucama, who was suing the Atlantic Coast Line railroad for $10,000 for the death of her husband, who was killed at a coal chute in Richmond June, 1915, was allowed $8,000 of the amount. Six thousand dollars is to go to the plaintiff and $1,000 to each of her two young daughters.

At the same time and in the same accident James R. Corbett of this city sustained injury which necessitated the amputation of his legs. In a compromise several years ago he was paid $9,000.

From the front page of The Dunn Dispatch, Nov. 8, 1921