Norwich bulletin., 1918-12-11
DEFENSE BEGINS IN
 ss.eoo DAMAGE SUIT

Late Tuesday afternoon the de- l fense was reached in the $6 900 dam 1 age suit brought by Mrs Ellen Doyle 1 Of 53e West Main street against the | Shore Line Electric Railway company. The plaintiff rested about s o'clock and after nearly an hour. T large part of which was spent by Brown & Per- kins, attorneys for the defendant, in 1 conference with Judge w NJ Maltbie, ! the court came in again and the first witness for the defense was called to the stand. This was Civil Engineer $. B. Palmer, who was in the employ of the Shore Line Electric Railway com pany. at the time of the accident to Mrs. Doyle. He testified that he look ed the track over about noon of that day, testing the gauge of the tracks in several places and finding nothing ab- normal about the tracks at these points He testified that q stone on the top of the wall in front of the Col lins house was pushed back at one end CT 4 inches. There was no vis- ible effect On the dirt back Of the stone. The weight of trolley cars in use at that time was F or + tons. It would require hardly any speed in a car of that weight to move the stone or the wall the way the witness saw it. Mir. Palmer said the guard rail of the westerly track ended at 8 point about opposite the elm tree in the street at that point and not at a point about 60 feet southerly from there, which is where Civil Engineer Pitch CT said he believed 1t ended The wit ness said the. construction of the track l at this point of proper character On cross examination by Attorney A. M. Brown, .dr. Palmer was asked l many questions about the guard rail | on the curve at this point and the proper construction of guard rails. Court adjourned at 4.25 until the 1 next morning at 10 o'clock
 1 When court came ili the morning the first witness called by Attorneys William H. Shields and 4. N. Brown for the plaintiff was Dr. ". K Ting ley. He was followed by Miss Eliza l beth Hayes, who is a school teacher. and was on inc car at the time of the l accident Mrs. Fanny L. lamb, Mrs l Bessie A. Otis and Mrs. Annie Willis testified to calling on Mrs Doyle while sine was sick in bed as the result of 1 her injuries and as to the condition 1 in which they found her.
 Miss Anna F.. Doyle, ! daughter Of l the plaintiff, told Of the way she took 1 care of her mother and of the length
 of time her mother was incapacitated Dy the injuries she received.
 r The testimony the plaintiff as to the injuries received on October g, 1916. when she was passenger in a trolley
 car that jumped the track on McKip
 ley avenue near Grove street closed
 the case for. the plaintiff.
 Mrs. Doyle said she has six chi1-
 dren and three are. married. Her bus
 band has been away from home for
 19 years. The day of the Inishap she
 was on her way to work in the home
 Of MT. Shields.
 She was thrown to the floor of the
 car and Miss Ellen Leahy fell upon
 her and for a time Mrs. Doyle was
 Unconscious. She was taken home.
 Her back and sides and shoulders were l hurt. For four weeks pr. Callahan. who
 was sent for by the company cared for her and then she was treated by her
 own physician Dr. Tingley
 Mrs. Doyle still has to wear st>ap
 on her back fer supports anu she feels
 better standing than sitting or lyi1Pe down. She was unable to work foI
 seven months and now only works
 about three days a week where sl,r
 used to wori six and made $1.50 an6 some times g per day. For fou1 weeks the woman was confined to hel
 bed. Mrs. Doyle went into details ss to illness and she said she is still sui.
 fering from her injuries.