SERVICE CAR ACCIDENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 262, 5 November 1928, Page 17

SERVICE CAR ACCIDENT.

WOMAN AWARDED £497 DAMAGES

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, Friday.

An action by Margaret Motley for £1348 damages for injuries received by the upsetting of a service car, was heard in the Supreme Court to-day. After an hour's retirement the jury found that the driver was negligent and that the owner of the car was also liable. The jury awarded £450 general damages and £47 15/ special damages.

A wife who had left her husband in the south and came to Auckland, and who sought maintenance was crossexamined. at the Magistrate's Court rather closely by Mr. Allan Moody. She had referred to the place where her husband lived, as a "one-eyed show," and counsel promptly seized upon that as being the real reason for her leaving home. She admitted she would not mind a divorce, if she could get an allowance to keep her. Mr. Moody reverently handed to Mr. E. C. Cutten, S.M. a document, remarking "It has a pretty red eeaL" The document proved to be a license for the husband as a lay reader in the Anglican Church.