£7,000 DAMAGES CLAIMED
GIRL LOSES LEG [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, November 23. Both the tram and the coal lorry that collided in Wakefield street, near Cuba street, Wellington, on June l(i, injuring a girl passenger on the tram, were taken to the Supreme Court today so that the jury bearing the claim made on behalf of the gin for damages, could see them. The tram had not been shifted since being driven to tho tramway workshops after the accident five months ago, and was still in a damaged condition. The,power of tho magnetic brake to stop the tram was demonstrated to the jury, and they visited the place of the accident. It was the third day of the hearing. The jury will retire after the summing up to-morrow morning.
Harold Horace Joseph Donellan, a linesman, claims on behalf of his daughter, Marcia Donnellan, the girl injured, £7,000 damages from the Wellington City Corporation and the Westport Coal Company Ltd. It is alleged that the tram ran into the rear of the lorry when the lorry was stopped suddenly near a pedestrian crossing. Miss Donnellan, who was preparing to alight at the forward end, was so seriously injured that her left leg had to be amputated, and her right leg has become paralysed. To-day the case for the company and counsel’s addresses were beard.
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Evening Star, Issue 23123, 24 November 1938, Page 18
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224£7,000 DAMAGES CLAIMED Evening Star, Issue 23123, 24 November 1938, Page 18
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