NOT UNREASONABLE
TRAFFIC SPEED BY-LAW IN EASTBOURNE. Reserved judgment was delivered in tho Magistrate’s Court on Saturday by Mr. J. 11. Salmon, S.M., in a ease in which A. Dunean, traffic inspector for the Eastbourne Borough Council, proceeded against Charles James Stanton Harcourt and Nordan A. J. Barker for exceeding the speed limit of 15 miles an hour on the Muritai Road fixed by a Borough Council by-law. For the defendants it was pleaded that the by-law was unreasonable. The question whether a by-law was to bo held to be unreasonable, said Mr. Salmon, in his judgment, was a question of fact to be decided on the special circumstances of each case. Having regard to the nature of the locality and all the circumstances, he found it impossible to hold that the decision of the council to limit the speed of all vehicles to.fifteen miles per hour was a conclusion at which no reasonable body of men could arrive. Defendants therefore were each convicted and fined .£l, with. 12s. costs.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 149, 21 March 1927, Page 5
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170NOT UNREASONABLE Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 149, 21 March 1927, Page 5
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