A suit for $8,000 was filed this morning against J.R. Petway for damages by Bryce Little, attorney for Miss Maud Taylor, 11-year-old girl, who was seriously injured last winter when struck by Petway’s car on the Stantonsburg road. Another suit was filed for $1,000 by the girl’s mother, Mrs. Lon Taylor, for hospital fees.
Petway was given a preliminary hearing on the criminal action taken, but to date, the case has not been brought to trial, being postponed on account of the injuries of the girl, who at that time was not expected to live, and later on account of the congested condition of the court docket.
Attorney Little stated this afternoon that it had been definitely ascertained that the injures of the girl would be permanent, there being a probability that her leg, which was badly mangled and lacerated with struck by the auto, would have to be amputated. At the present time the girl has no use of her limb at all, it is alleged.
The accident occurred while the girl and her mother were returning to their home on J.A. Corbett’s farm on the Stantonsburg road, near Wilson, the automobile which Petway was driving swerved to the side of the road striking the girl, knocking her unconscious and inflicting painful injuries. The girl was rushed to a local hospital where she hovered between life and death for several days, before physicians declared there was a chance for recovery.
From page 3 of The Wilson Times, Tuesday, July 29, 1924
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