DAMAGES AWARD
INJURY TO A SCHOOLGIRL.
SUM OF £ISOO TO BE PAID.
SEQUEL TO ’BUS ACCIDENT. (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day.Generai damages, £ISOO, were, awarded to-day to a 10-year-old girl, Elizabeth Mary Trumpet, who was severely injured when the Hawavden School ’bus crashed into a tree on May 10. The cause of the accident, the jury held, was negligence of the driver, Alexander Hugh Millar. Plaintiff sued through her father, Angus Llewellyn Trumper, farm manager, of Hawarden, the general damage claim being £3OOO. Defendants were Alexander Hugh Millar, driver of the Hawarden Consolidated School ’bus at the time of the accident, and Ecroyd’s Garage and Transport Company, of Hawarden. There was no real distinction between negligence and error of judgment, said Mr Justice Northcroft, in summing up. Negligence, indeed, might be described as a degree of error of judgment. “One always wonders why, in these cases, it is necessary to bring the evidence of a team of doctors,” said the Judge. “It might well be considered that sufficient evidence could have been placed before you by the doctor who performed the operation and was in charge of the case. As it was, a team of'three doctors was called.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 20, 3 November 1937, Page 6
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