£1000 AWARDED.
JUDGE'S DECISION. TETANUS INFECTION. j PART OP INJURY ITSELF. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRIS TCHURCH, this day. The sum of £1000 claimed by Ernest Leonard Harrison-Wilkie from the Victoria Insurance Company, under a private motor vehicle insurance policy taken out with the company by his late wife, was awarded to pfaintlff in the Supreme Court this morning. Three medical witnesses agreed that most probably the infection of tetanus when Mrs. HaTrison-Wilkle was injured in falling from the car, occurred from the fall and not during subsequent treatment at home. His Honor, Mr. Justice Northcroft, held that the physical injuries included an abrasive wound and the importation' into that wound of dirt which contained germs or spores of tetanus. The tetanus was part of the injury itself and not something different, supervening or resulting from the injuries. The language of an exception in the policy was inappropriate to exclude a disease arising from Mi accident. It was itself one (df the in/rrrfes and not merely "the result of the injuries."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 299, 17 December 1937, Page 8
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170£1000 AWARDED. Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 299, 17 December 1937, Page 8
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