Greensboro News, Sept. 3rd
Federal Judge E. Yates Webb has approved the payment of $600 by A. E. Smith and J. W. Fry, receivers of the Atlantic and Yadkin Railroad Company, to J. T. Wilkie, Ella Hampton and the Chatham county residents in settlement of their claims against the railroad company for damages done to their property by fire said to have originated by sparks thrown out by an A. and Y. locomotive.
On December 8, 1925, the plaintiffs brought suit against the receivers of the railroad for $4,000 damages in the Superior Court of Chatham county. During the August, 1926 civil term at Pittsboro, it was reported to the presiding judge that the case had been compromised upon the agreement of the receivers to pay the plaintiffs $600, but pending approval of the settlement by Judge Webb, no action could be taken.
The receivers recommended to Judge Webb that the settlement was a fair one, so checks will be forwarded by the receivers at once.
From the front page of the Chatham Record, Pittsboro, N. C. Thursday, Sept. 9, 1926
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