LITTLE BOY'S ACCIDENT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 180, 30 July 1913, Page 9

LITTLE BOY'S ACCIDENT.

t3lißl AGAINST A MOTOR-CYCLIST.

A sum of £117 15/ was claimed as oarages in a ease heard by Mr. F. V. ifrazer, S3L. at the Magistrate's Court Jesterday afternoon. The plaintiff was .asEren-year-old boy. Thomas Jajnes ■*|rane, Tho through iiis father, Alan "toes Evans, sued a young man named |fenry Xorman Webster, of Remuera. > recover the amount stated as dam- «*£* for injuries alleged to have been K«n-ed by his being knocked down by H 8 defendant's motor cycle. The claim •mfor £100 general damages and £17 »/ special damazes for expenses in•fwL Mr. A. E. Skelton appeared for J«e Pontiff and Mr. G. M. Newton for *ac defendant The little boy said that being knocked down in Pass by a motor cycle. He was ffossmg the road from the northern aide, m had got ovei three or four tram «B when he was knocked over by the »*» cycle, which was comi,i 2 down itLSt HP dld not seeit b « f °r p it "™* a *n. He had been laid up a long 2" , inkJe " TChich he bad ■»" o -was broken., sometimes caused him jam.

? ark " who had attended the -.aud that an ankle had teen 'broken. tae child had suffered considerable now P"»eiacaJly right, but a£!*s ° f the foot might be retarded. -"tsdSnf ° d / re - V ' an of the "S? Sa,d that thp m °tor <™ie was ■ __?*** «> e hill on tbe wrong side . Jtehreen 28 and 30 miles an bou°r. and . "■ the colhs-.on -it could not be pulled £»*» it had jon. about 60 yards Strt 653 said thrvt be saw the de - .,*»»» going very fast down Khyber hoy's mother said that in.response bfatotT ?* nad to the de--sdtt had CaUed on hw - a "d had WU- He .had offered so The .expenses, bnt had not Seal 056 * 1 th 6 P l^^s ««■ "1 ••«anoonT g W3S ad i o,lnied to this ;• -