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Fort Worth, Texas, April 2, 1906.

TO THE HONORABLE MAYOR, CITY SECRETARY, OR CITY COUNCIL of the
CITY OF FORT WORTH? TEXAS:

This is to notify you that on, to-wit: the night of Tuesday
March 13, 1906, Mrs. E. J. Rogers and Miss Maude Rogers while on the sidewalk on Alston Avenue were injured by
falling into an open ditch across dug across the side-walk on the east side of said Alston
Avenue between Bellevue Street and Laurel Street and within the corporate
limits of the City of Fort Worth, in Tarrant County, Texas. The night
was dark and the accident was caused by the negligent omission to properly light
or protect barricade the ditch properly.

Mrs. Rogers was very severely injured, her face being cut and
bruised, a tooth being knocked out, her side bruised and hurt, and one or
both of her lower limbs bruised and hurt,

Miss Rogers was painfully jarred and shaken and had one knee
wrenched.

We respectfully ask compensation for the injuries received by
Mrs. Rogers in the sum of $2000.00, and for Miss Rogers the sum of
$500.00.

Beckham & Beckham

Attorneys for Mrs. Rogers and
Miss Rogers