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Williams & Bailey.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS.

Jan'y. 23, 1902.

The Honorable, the Mayor,
and the City Council,
Fort Worth, Texas.

Gentlemen:-

I return herewith the damage claim of James Enlow, a minor, 17
years of age, as presented by George W. Suters, his stepfather. The
boy's injuries were occasioned by his falling from a loaded wagon, at a
point on Rusk Street, shortly north of Front Street, in the city of Fort
Worth. He claims his fall was caused by reason of one wheel of the
wagon on which he was riding coming violently in contact with a pile of
gravel and tilling, lying in the street at that point, suddenly checking
the wagon and throwing him from the top of the load to the street.

The accident occurred at around 11 o'clock at night. There
were, so far as I have found, no witnesses to the fall, save the occu-
pants of the wagon. A street light was burning a short distance away,
but it is claimed that a cat, which stood near the light, cast a heavy
shadow over that part of the street where the boy fell, and obscured the
pile of gravel and tilling, so that it was not seen,until the wagon had
been driven against it.

The statements as to this gravel pile are directly contradicto-
ry. Mr.Suters says it was a large pile, the top rising two or three
feet above the surface of the street. Whatever obstruction then exist-
ed at that place had been put there by employees of T.M.Brown & Co. Of