A GOLFING INCIDENT.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXII, Issue 61, 14 March 1910, Page 8

A GOLFING INCIDENT.

LECKIE v. 11A1VSON

[press association.] WELLINGTON, This Day

Considerable interest is taken in a case being heard in the Supreme Court to-day, in which Frank Leckie, a civil servant, and his wife, seek to recover from Dr Ernest Rawson £786 as damages for bodily injuries sustained by Mrs Leckie. The case is a, sequel to an accident which took place on the Heretaunga links, Hutt Valley, when defendant, in swinging a club, struck Mrs Leckie on the face, breaking her nose, and injuring the frontal base of the skull and severing the olfactory nerve, the result of which is she lost, all sense of taste and smell. The defence was that Mrs Leckie had no right to be ay hero site was; that defendant was not guilty of any negligence; that the accident was caused through Mrs. Leckie breaking the recognised custom by passing over the tee at the back of the player without giving any warning of her approach.