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Claim Fails
(N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, Nov. 1. By a majority of 10 to two a jury in the Supreme Court at Auckland tonight rejected a claim for damages of £34,277 13s lid brought by a man who was paralysed in his arms and legs after an accident on a building site in July, 1961. Mr Justice Woodhouse accepted the jury’s verdict. The jury was out for three hours and 55 minutes. His Honour entered judgment for the defendant and reserved the question of costs. The plaintiff was Bernard Robert Levesque, aged 34, a former carpenter. He received severe injuries in July, 1961, when a frame wall on | a house building site collapsed on him, severing his spinal cord. Levesque alleged the frame collapsed as a result of the loosening of a brace supporting it by vibration from a trench-digging machine owned by the defendant. W. Stevenson and Sons, Ltd., working nearby. The jury found the collapse of Ute frame was not caused or contributed to by vibration from the trenchdigger.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30278, 2 November 1963, Page 12
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