DEFENDANT WINS
CLAIM FOR £SOB DAMAGES. SEQUEL TO GOLF ACCIDENT. (Per Press Association). WELLINGTON, This Day. Reserved judgment for defendant was given by Mr E. Page, S.M., to-day in the claim of Ernest Edward Edwards against Beatrice Meliaffey, for £SOO damages for the loss of an eye caused by a golf ball driven by defendant striking him on the Manor Park course. The Magistrate held that the evidence did not disclose any lack of reasonable care on defendant’s part in having failed to notice plaintiff prior to making her shot. Having made her shot and then catching sight of him, she did her best to save him from injury. The Magistrate also held that plaintiff had not established that even on the basis that defendant bad, or should have, seen plaintiff before playing her shot she was guilty of negligence in failing to warn him before playing.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 108, 16 February 1935, Page 3
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