AWARD OF £2000.
GENERAL DAMAGES.
WOMAN LOST ARM.
(By Telegrnph.—l>ress Association.) WANGANUI, Wednesday. A jury in the Supreme -Court at Wanganui to-day, after a retirement of four and a half hours, awarded £2000 general damages to Ada Harriette Ciithbertson, a married woman, of Castlecliff, who lost her left arm as a result of a motor accident on the Parapara Road. In addition to general damages special damages to be agreed upon between the plaintiff and the defendant were allowed. This sum was stated in Court to be £133. The plaintiff had claimed £3000 general damages, it being pointed out that she was a left-handed woman ai*> that the loss of the left arm was equivalent to a normal person losing the ri<»ht arm.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 190, 12 August 1937, Page 24
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AWARD OF £2000.
Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 190, 12 August 1937, Page 24
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