JURY ASSESSES DAMAGES

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22850, 25 October 1939, Page 13

JURY ASSESSES DAMAGES

LIABILITY ADMITTED IN MOTOR ACCIDENT

U>BESS ASSOCIATION TELEOHAM.)

WELLINGTON. October 24.

Liability was admitted in the Supreme Court to-day when Victor Emanuel Clark, a meter-reader, employed by the Electricity Depsartment of the Wellington City Corporation, claimed' £ISOO general damages and £602 2s lOd special damages from Arthur John Rigg. a managing director, of Wellington. A jury of 12 was empanelled before Mr Justice Blair to assess the damages. Clark was awarded the full amount of general damages, and £432 special damages. The claim arose from an accident on October 18. 1938. when" plaintiffs motor-cycle collided with defendant’s car at the junction of Miramar avenue and Aberdeen quay. Plaintiff suffered a double fracture of the left thigh, a damaged kneejoint, and shock, and afterwards dilatation of the stomach developed. He would be unable to return to work until July of next year, it was stated, but he would then be permanently crippled. He would be unable to bend his knee beyond a right-angle, and would have the equivalent of only half the use of his left leg.