Typed as spelled and written
- Lena Stone Criswell

(So much of this article is missing
but I feel it may be too important to
readers to be omitted-lsc)

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Thirty-First Year - Number 77
Marlin, Texas, Friday, July 31, 1931

AGREED JUDGMENT ENDS
SUIT IN DISTRICT COURT

Decree Recites Death of One Plaintiff
and Dismissal of Two
Defendants.

       Agreed judgment of $7,500 for F. M. Pucek against the Central Texas Refining Co. and R. L. Wheel(missing)ock, as its receiver, and reciting sam(e) has already been paid, entered (missing) Falls county district court Thursday afternoon ended a damage suit which has been on trial all week.
       The case was outgrowth of a (col)lision on state highway No. (missing) Christmas eve last near Lott bet(ween) a car and a truck in which (missing) Pucek was killed and her daughte(r,) Christine, was fatally injured.
       Taking of testimony had been completed, both sides had rested and arguments were slated when the agreement was announced.
       The decree recited that one of the plaintiffs, Mrs. Rhoda Thames(,) mother of Mrs. Pucek, had died since (missing) institution for the suit and that "h(er) heirs are not entitled to recover a(ny) thing."
       The decree also recited dismiss(missing) of the defendants, Texas Pacific Coal & Oil Co., Southern Surety Co. and D. Currey, driver of the truck.

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