£2500 IS CLAIMED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 282, 29 November 1938, Page 11

£2500 IS CLAIMED.

EYELID TORN AWAY.

PLASTIC SURGEON'S FEAT.

(By Telegraph.—Prene Association.)

WELLINGTON, Monday. Damages amounting to £2545 were •lnimed in the Supreme Court to-day nn behalf of a boy of night, for injuries received when he was knocked down by ;t motor ryrle in Newtown nearly two vcnr« ago. The eaee wan heard by the I hipf Justice, Sir Michael Myers, and « jury of 12. Gordon Albert Steel, suing through hie father, Albert Edward Steel, claimed £45 special damages and £2500 jrcnnral damages from TJesmond Claire Williams, upholsterer.

Counsel eaid the boy received eevere injuries to the right eye, the eyelid being torn away. The eye itself was uninjured. The eyelid had been grafted <>n again, and eventually, with the aid of a tcndon-lik« substance from the leg, liitched to a muscle of the forehead.

Altogether the boy had been to the operating theatre eight or nine times. Flo had been operated on by an eminent N'pw Zealand plastic surgeon, and although the surgeon had achieved something that a few years ago would proliably have been undreamt of, the boy wan still suffering coneiderable disutility. Hβ could not rai«e the eyelid in the normal way. He had to make a con- - inns effort of rawing the forehead in •inter to lift the eyelid. There was also . miinent disfigurement. rite hearing of tlju cu*b will coutiaue to morrow, " m