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£6000 for Girl
Crash Victim
SYDNEY, Thursday.— A Jury
in the Supreme Court todav
awarded £6099 damages to
Joan Norman Thompson, of
Orange, for injuries she re-,
ceived in a motor collision near
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Miss Thompson suffered a
fractured skull and a lacerated
brain.
Doctors gave evidence that
Miss Thompson, who is aged
, 18 now, had the mind of a
child about 12.
She was formerly of bright,
happy disposition, It was
stated, and was a stenographer
' and typist of exceptional abi-
She was now moody, some-
j times very happy and on other
| occasions quarrelsome < and
I subject to outbursts of tem-
i p er.
i The defendant was Albert
; Henrv Nicholls. who, she al-
i leged, negligently drove a truck
> on the Great Western High-
way and collided with a motor
i cycle on which she was a pil-
; lion rider.
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