BIG CLAIMS
SEQUEL TO MOTOR ACCIDENTS WELLINGTON, November 24. Damages for the full amount claimed, £7,000, were awarded by a jury of 12 in the Supreme Court to Marcia Dondllan, aged 17. whose left leg was amputated following injuries received m a collision between a tram and a lorry in Wakefield street on June 16. She was travelling in the tram, and she sued the Wellington City Corporation and the Westport Coal Company Ltd. for £7,000. Damages were awarded against the City _ Corporation. The case, which occupied four days, was presided over by the Chief Justice (Sir Michael Myers), whose summing up today lasted for almost an hour and three-quarters. A claim for more than' £4,000 damages was made in the Supreme Court, Wellington, by a Christchurch resident on behalf of himself and his children for the loss of his wife, who died from injuries she received in an accident. During a visit to Wellington Emily Elizabeth Williams was knocked down by a motor car on Brooklyn road. The accident paralysed the greater portion of her body, and she died a month later. The plaintiff is George Albert Kendall Williams, company manager, Christchurch, and the defendants are David Norman Costley, clerk, of Wellington, and James Costley, foreman, of Wellington.
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Evening Star, Issue 23124, 25 November 1938, Page 13
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209BIG CLAIMS Evening Star, Issue 23124, 25 November 1938, Page 13
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