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Mrs. Claude Fessenden Wins $8,000 Verdict In Suit Against Local Man.
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The Potter Enterprise One of Pennsylvania's Good Weekly Newspapers Circulation Week 4183 NET PAID
Mrs. Claude Fessenden Wins Verdict In Suit Against Local Man.
Mrs. Claude Fessenden, 63-year-old East Second St. woman, was awarded $8,000.00 in a suit asking for $30,000.00 Saturday afternoon. The case went to trial Friday morning.
Defendant in the suit was Edwin P. Wetzel, service station worker who lives off East Second Street. A car driven by Mr. Wetzel struck Mrs. Fessenden early on the morning of Sept. 24, 1952 as the woman was crossing East Second St. from her home. An employe of the Coudersport Laundry at the time, Mrs. Fessenden was on the way to work.
Mr. Wetzel and Roger Butz, of Ulysses, passenger in the Wetzel car, both testified that the driver made a futile effort to avoid hitting the woman, who suffered an ankle injury. Mrs. Fessenden was threatened (Continued on Page 6)
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... with the loss of her leg for a time a result of the accident, Dr. Herman C. Mosch, her doctor and witness for the plaintiff, testified. The physician-surgeon said Mrs. Fessenden suffered 75% disability as a result.
Mrs. Pessenden brought suit for $30,000,00. The balance or $50,000.00 was entered in behalf of her husband for the woman's loss of earnings.
Mrs. Fessenden operates a laundry business from her home. She has been unable to work at the Coudersport Laundry since the mishap.
John E. Rydesky and William Higie, of Emporium, represented the plaintiff. Berger and Young, Coudersport law firm, was counsel for the defendant.
The Emporium lawyers also represented John J. Pesock in his suit against Easton-Fee Chevrolet Co., Inc.
A disputed tract of land totalling 100 acres was awarded to Buell Leache, of Rome, N. Y. by a jury Monday. The land had been acquired at a tax sale by Raymond Lamphier, of Westfield, in November, 1951 for $37.85.
At the expiration of two years, failure of the owner to pay the back taxes, plus interest and costs, would have given title to the land by Mr. Lamphier. As a result of what was as a clerical omission in the county treasurer's office, Mr. Lamphier was led to believe that the became his property on Nov. 1953.
However, it was brought out that taxes had been paid on the property by Mrs. Stanley C. Welfling, wife of the county treasurer. [It's a procedure not without precedent and perfectly proper. Ed.] But apparently, no record of the transaction was made.
Mr. Lamphier sued to take title to the tract as direct result.
A civil suit against a Potter County potato grower, Edward P. Gagnon, brought by the General Bag Corporation, was withdrawn. The bag company and spud grower came to legal blows over a shipment of textile bags purchased by the defendant.
A Suit against Robert Froebel, of Coudersport, brought by James Berry, of Rochester, NY, was put over to May term of court by agreement of both sides. A car driven by Froebel struck and seriously injured injured the Rochester man on Route 6 east of here about three miles. The latter was standing near his stalled car when the eastbound Froebel auto plowed into him, knocking Mr. Berry into a roadside field.
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