SUPREME COURT
CLOAKE V. HUTT COUNTY COUNCIL YERDICT FOR DEFENDANT In the Supreme Court yesterday before His Honour Jlv. Justice Edwurds and a special jury of four, the hearing of the civil case in which Leonard Cloake driver, claimed from the ihiU Count}" Council, i;i5D ior dnniages lur alk-ed negligence, was concluded. ° In May, 1910, plaintiff was drivin" his motor lorn- loaded with furniture down the Paekakariki Hill when a portion of tlio road crumbled away and the lorry was precipitated somo 30 or dO feet down the hill side, and Cloako was rendered temporarily unconscious, and lit had to make good tho damages done to the furniture and was put to other expenses in recovering the lorry, etc The. claim was made against the" coun eil on tho ground that tho council had been at fault in failing to make eafo that portion of the road where tho α-c cident occurred. The council admitted no liability. Tho jury, after a retirement of a lit tie more than two hours, brought in a verdict in favour of the defendant council. The motion for judgment will be taken on Holiday. Mr. T. Young appeared for the plain tilt' and the Hon. 'J'. AV. Hislop for the Hutt Comity Council.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 211, 25 May 1918, Page 12
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