A NORTHCOTE AFFAIR.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 247, 18 October 1922, Page 5

A NORTHCOTE AFFAIR.

! CAR RUNS DOWN MILK FLOAT. j I'I.AI.VTIPF ACCEPTS NONSIIT. I j An action was heard in the MagisI irate's Court yesterday and to-day before j Mr. \V. R. McKean. S.M., in which Erie J .lonian (Mr. W. K. Ward) claimed to j recover from William and Tliomae Mc Ketridjie (Mr. •). I , ". W. Dickson, instructed by Messrs. Ball and Wilkln) the sum of £"!• 3/7 for alleged damage* by reason of the negligent driving of defendant's servant. The evidence showed that «n .luly -I, at Nortlie >te, the plaintiff was driving his motor car when lie ran into :< milk tloat lwlonging to the defendants and which had no light. The sum mentioned was lite fsisi of repiirs to tTie <.ir arid £."il> general damages were t'.itimed. Tlie defendants *<imittt>.] that, the miik Hoat. was unligltted. foul \ nmin'ained iliat the plaintiff had been atill'y of contri:>i:toiy negligence in driviviu tbt , car on the wrong sid , of the ; w.d and in travelling at an excessive speed. After lien ring some of Jie evidence for defendants, the magistrate said he was satisfied that the contentions of the defence were correct. Plaintiff then submitted to a nonsuit, with costs £8 18/6.