Part 8, Note 58

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Colorado Citizen, March 16, 1871, May 14, 1874, October 1, 1874, October 15, 1874, October 29, 1874, February 25, 1875, September 2, 1875, June 8, 1876, March 15, 1877, March 22, 1877, October 11, 1877, November 15, 1877, May 23, 1878, October 3, 1878. The rise in industrial accidents was shortly followed by the introduction of the personal injury lawsuit to Colorado County. In the summer of 1877, Cecile LaGierse, the widow of the man who died as the result of injuries he received when attempting to board the train at Borden, sued the railroad. The case dragged on for years, and was finally dismissed, on grounds that the plaintiff had not come to court, on March 9, 1887 (see Colorado Citizen, June 7, 1877; Colorado County District Court Records, Civil Cause File No. 3454: Cecile LaGierse v. Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railroad, Minute Book I, p. 72).