HER LIFE RUINED
• MOTOR CRASH VICTIM "DISTRESSING TO LOOK AT" A 25-year-old woman, whose face had become " paralysed and masklike " after injuries suffered in a road accident, was awarded £l6Bl at Birmingham Assizes. She is Miss Jessie Elizabeth Scott, of Stourbridge Worcestershire, and when he discussed her appearance Mr Justice Oliver asked her to leave the court. He termed the task of assessing the value of the appearance of a girl of her age as " dreadful." and added:
"Anyone who has seen this poor young woman talking, trying to smile, presenting on that side of her face a terrible mask-like appearance which is most distressing to look at, must realise that unless there is some reasonable assurance that she will recover, it is going to affect the whole of her life, and to a great extent is going to ruin her. "It is difficult to think that she has any chance of getting married, although she must have been very nice looking before this happened. It will lie on her life like a dreadful shadow."
Miss Scott, who is the daughter ot a Stourbridge clothier, received her injuries on May 31, 1938. when she was knocked down by a car driven by Mr John Robert Henry Perry, of Larkhill Pedmore, Worcestershire, against whom damages were awarded.
For Miss Scott, Mr J. F. Burke said that her injuries included a fractured skull and a fracture near the eac
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23810, 17 May 1939, Page 7
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237HER LIFE RUINED Otago Daily Times, Issue 23810, 17 May 1939, Page 7
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