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_ Nine verdicts . !or dam• ries, was award~d $il2,- _
ages totaling $660,008.Gi - 600.79. Bu~l. Hender~o;.1, 45" l J
the highest ever awarded in a weld~r ~ivmg at 1020 ~on i
. . f - hi St., Wilmington, was g1ven
. thi_s c6unty or a single gh~ $52,M6.73. J
way' collision - were . re- Walter T. Ballou, 7_7-, writ-:_ , i
turn~d Thursday by a Jury er and onetime member of ,
I after three days of delibera- former Gov. Culbert;, L. ''01- · 1
, tion., ""'·· son's secretarial staff, ,, re- ·
-The jury of seven .women ceived a $33,147.97 verdict. ' J
· • five men decided on -_ . _ · - ' i
_, ,102.07 for phi lip J. Four_ Mex1eans
· enisfon 20 who has never Four agricultural workers ' . ~
ga,i-ned' co~sciousness since from: Guadalajara, Mex.'. _also· i
e Oct. 12, 1962, accident. were award e d . damages.
·enisten, a sailor residing G1fadalupe Munoz, 32, :was -
ulare was aboard a bus g 1-v en. $15,653.35; Enrique
- '·.bis w;y back to his ship P l a c enc i ., 22, $1,36Ui5;
·1tong Beach when the Isaac ~alderon,. 48, $7;347.92,
icle struck a truck - on and his son, Aristo Calderon,
., hway 99 about a half- 26, $1,900. , ,
_ . le south of Tapia Canyon Mrs. Edghill ~ as; rep-re• '
'Rd. on the Ridge Route. • sented by att-omey P. M.
p t F"l s •t_ Barceloux, Henderson by
. · - · aren ," 1 ~ ut Arthur Sherman} Ballou by .
,,_"' Th,e .youths suit, prosecu~- William M. Morgan and the ,
~ct---by attorneys Rayiµond farm workers by Donald C. "-
G. Stanbury and George Lozano - · ,, . - .
Wiener, was filed for him by Orte ~oman was killed.and 1 -
his par~nts, Mr. and Mrs. S. 22 other passenger~ on the
r. J?emsto11 Jr., of Tula:e· bus were injured. ,'Some ofi
Du~~ng the month-long ~nal the resulting claims have
Ph1hp was wheeled into be e ut of court bu?
Superior Judge Stevens ~a;R; .. :-- to be tried. 'f
go's courtroom on a hosp1tiil ' ·
cot so jurors could iee h ·
condition. ,
All verdicts were returned f
cagainst Western Greyhound
04 ines and the bus _ driver, _
• tHarold F. Van Horn, 43. 1
Van Horn testified at tile '1
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trial that the bus accelera- ~:
Et.or had ja.lJlmed s e v-e r al<[
Himes during . the trip and ~
othat just before the impact ~·
the had taken his tyes off .
th~ road to reach down to I
Cpull up the accessory b.
lihand.
A ward to 'l'ruck Firm