TRAM AND LORRY AT COURT
INSPECTION MADE BY JURORS CLAIM FOR DAMAGES AFTER COLLISION (United Press Association) WELLINGTON, November 23. Both a tram and a coal lorry that collided in Wakefield street, near Cuba street, Wellington, on June 16, injuring a girl passenger on the tram, were taken to the Supreme Court today, so that the jury hearing a claim made on behalf of the girl for damages could see them. The tram had not been shifted since being driven to the tramway workshops after the accident five months ago and was still in a damaged condition. The power of the. magnetic brake to stop the tram was demonstrated to the jury and it visited the place of the accident. It was the third day of the hearing. The jury will retire lifter the summingup tomorrow morning. Harold Horace Joseph Donnellan, a linesman, claims of behalf of his daughter, Marcia Donnellan, the girl injured, £7OOO damages from the Wellington City Corporation and the Westport Coal . Company Ltd. It is alleged that the tram ran into the rear of t.ie lorry when the lorry 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. Today the case for the company and counsels’ addresses were heard.
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Southland Times, Issue 23674, 24 November 1938, Page 12
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