Family Wants $20,000 in Damages from Railroad for Death of 9-Year-Old, April 23, 1926

Estate of Child Sues for $20,000 Damages

Charlotte, April 22—The estate of Rufus Edwards, 9-year-old boy, filed suit Wednesday for $20,000 against the Southern Railway Company in Mecklenburg Superior court, alleging that the company’s negligence caused the boy’s death last November.

W.D. Turner, engineer, was made a party to the defense. Preston and Rose represent the plaintiff.

The complaint alleged that the lad was at the intersection of the railroad tracks and Second street, playing at a place generally known as a playground for children. The railroad company had interposed no object and had provided no safeguards to prevent its trains doing injury to the playing children, it was alleged. The lad is said to have been struck by an engine driven by Mr. Turner.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Friday, April 23, 1926

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