CROWN’S APPEAL DISMISSED
Retrial Of Claim For Damages (NJS. Press Association) WELLINGTON, Nov. 20. The Court of Appeal today in separate written judgments dismissed the appeal by the Solicitor-General for a new trial in the case in which the executors in the estate of the late Robert Bruce May claimed damages amounting to £19,500 as a result of the death of May when the police car in which he was a passenger collided with the rear of a truck, parked on the roadside and owned by Bruce Walter Absolum, a contractor of Auckland.
The president of the Court (Sir Kenneth Gresson) said the onus of establishing that the answers of the jury exonerating the defendant Absokun were perverse were in his opinion not discharged in this case.
In his opinion the trial Judge was correct both in his approach and in his weighing of the evidence and in upholding the jury as the final arbiter of the matter.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29985, 21 November 1962, Page 4
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