$33,000 Damages Awarded in Suits Over Truck Crash

$33,000 DAMAGES AWARDED IN SUITS OVER TRUCK CRASH Two Youths Given $25,000 Judgments Against Dairy Company FORMER COP GETS $8700 A verdict for $33,000, largest recorded in an accident case here in a year, was awarded by a jury in Circuit Court yesterday to two boys for injuries suffered in a collision of trucks in Gloucester Sept. 1, 1929. Albert J. Fullmer, now 19, of 944 Somerset street, Gloucester, was allowed $25,000 for injuries to his back and one foot, and William Kennedy, Jr., 20, 1503 Collings road, Fairview, was awarded $2500 for leg injuries. Fullmer's mother, Frieda, was granted $5000, and Kennedy's father $500 for medical expenses and loss of their sons' services. The verdict was against the Scott-Powell Dairies. The boys were riding on a running-board of one of the dairy trucks at the invitation, they said, of the driver, Romie Hampton, 20, of 913 Ridgeway street, Gloucester, an acquaintance. The truck collided at Broadway and Cumberland street, Gloucester, with a truck of the George Gideon Company, driven by Edward Cross, 243 Oakland street, Audubon. The Gideon firm also was a defendant in the suit, but the jury absolved it of liability. The plaintiffs were represented by Walter Keown, with Judge Henry H. Eldredge presiding. Anton Olsen, Lakeside Park, near Trenton, a former state policeman, was awarded $8743.95 by a jury in the State Supreme Court for alleged permanent injuries to his brain and jaw. The verdict was against John Riebel, a farmer of Glassboro. Olsen's motorcycle was struck March 3, 1930, by an automobile driven by Riebel on the Cross Keys road at Glassboro. Because of the effect of the accident on the former trooper's mind, he was not required to remain in the courtroom during trial of the case. His attorney, T. Harry Rowland, said he suffers from sleeplessness because of recurrent dreams that he is dying. The accident caused him the loss of his position, Rowland said. The jury, in Judge Francis B. Davis, court, was out four hours.