A MOTOR ACCIDENT

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 151, 23 March 1925, Page 9

A MOTOR ACCIDENT

CLAD! FOR DAMAGES. Mr. S. L. P. Free, S.M., was engaged at the Magistrate's Court on Saturday hearing a claim for £137 12s. 4d. for alleged damages arising put of a motor accident at Plimmerton on October 12, 1924, when a cat belonging to Wilson Bros., carrying contractors, of Johnsonville, was damaged. The statement of claim set out that on Sunday, October 12, 1924, Thomas Wilson, one of the plaintiffs, was proceeding from Plimmerton to Horokiwi Valley, and that while proceeding > along the road from Plimmerton the car was run into by a truck driven by Frank C. Garland, now deceased. It was alleged that the accident was due to the negligence and lack of skill on the part of the driver of the truck in driving at too high a rate of speed; in not keeping sufficiently well over to the right side of the road; and not slowing down when approaching plaintiffs’ car. Plaintiffs claimed £137 12s. 4d., together with costs.

Air. F. H. Haigh appeared for plaintiffs, and defendants, Edgar Garland, of Wellington, motor importer, and Francis Le Manquais Garland, administrator in the estate of the late Frank C. Garland, were represented bj- Mr. H. Herd.

After hearing evidence the Magistrate reserved his decision, but intimated that he had decided to hold that Garland had decided to rush through instead of slowly passing plaintiffs’ car.