Dudley: Action Against a Tramway Company: At the County Court yesterday – before Judge Sir Rupert Kettle – Messrs. Barlow, of Bilston and Wolverhampton, millers sued the Dudley and Wolverhampton Tramway Company for £13 damages caused by a collision on the night of the 15th January. Mr. Hugo Young (instructed by Messrs. Barlow, Smith, and Pinsent) was for the plaintiff and Mr. Shakespeare for the defendants. For the plaintiffs, it was shown that after a heavy fall of snow the company employed men to clear the track, and this they did by piling up the snow between the rails and the gutter. There was no room for a cart or wagon to pass the tramcar except at places on the road, and where the accident happened there was no room. The snow had not been carted away …
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