£10,000 FOR LOSS Of BEAUTY.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 136, 10 June 1922, Page 20

£10,000 FOR LOSS Of BEAUTY.

I "Young men must not take pretty gsrls , out motoring unless they ran resist the I temptation to gaze upon them instead of keeping their eyes on the road." This is the substance of the summing up •of Justice Lydon. of New York County Sui prome Court, in an action brought by a young j shorthand typist named Laura .Taker against lan accountant. Jay Livingstone, from whom • she claimed £10,000 damages for the loss of her beauts-. The calamity was tl;e j result of Livingstone's car. in uh'wh I Miss Jaker was a passenger, colliding \vi:h I a tree. j Miss Jaker sustained severe facial injuries j from flying fragments ef the wind screen. "What was Mr. Ijvlngstnne doing at the moment the accident occurred?" the girl's J counsel asked her. I "Mc wus looking into my eyes." was her ! reply. ! Addressing thP defendant the Judge Bald, J "Tie plaintiff had a perfect right to enjoy i herself as the gupst of the owner of the car. Phe cannot be lipid responsible frvr any accident that, may bare occurred through her charms upsetting the driver."