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Dateline 1914 — Circuit Court was becoming a busy place
The Biloxi Herald headline was loud and clear: “$56,000 in lawsuits filed in Harrison County Circuit Court!” (Remember that many of the lawsuits in those days carried only $2.50 fines for average, ordinary, inappropriate acts. So who was making the big headlines that day? A 12-year-old lad brought suit against his employers for “failing to tell him the dangers of gasoline.” He had spent many weeks in the hospital and now wanted a settlement of $30,000. Next: In the case of the launch captain who had been struck by a heavy pine block and then fell from a derrick, breaking nine ribs and a knee, resulting in confinement “ever since,” attorneys were still totting up the total.
Sun Herald Memory Bank archives are researched and compiled by retired staff writer Jimmie Bell, whose reporting career at The Daily Herald and The Sun Herald spanned 30 years. Jimmie Bell is editor of Bell’s Letters poetry magazine, published in Gulfport. E-mail, jimbelpoet@aol.com.
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