Law: Suit-of-the-Week

Against: William Randolph Hearst and Sunical Land & Packing Co.

By: Jesse Zelda, mechanic.

Complaint: While repairing a truck on Mr. Hearst's San Simeon ranch, a "vicious, wild and dangerous ostrich" did knock down Mr. Zelda, stamp upon and trample him so that he was unconscious for three hours and suffered from brain concussion, traumatic hernia, nervous shock.

Damages asked: $40,000.

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