DAMAGES CLAIMS.
TWO JURIES ■ DIFFER
MOTOR ACCIDENT CASES. (From Our Correspondent.) PALMERSTON NORTH, Sunday. The way in which juries can differ on the same facts was revealed in the Supreme Court at Palmerston North. I'lainliff was Mrs. E. M. Quinlan, of iiewa, who brought two separate actions. In the first she claimed £750 general and £">"> special damages for injuries she lmd suffered personally as a passenger in her husband's car, which left the road to topple down a Hiiift. drop. The defendant was <T. E. Kidner, a farmer, of Rewa, whom she alleged had been responsible for the mishap through the negligent manner in which he laid driven his car when passing the car she was in. The jury found for the defendant. A second claim by Mrs. Quinlan was one for £2000 compensation for the loss of her husband, who was killed as a result of the accident. The jury in this case awarded her £730.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 257, 31 October 1938, Page 5
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