DAMAGES AWARDED
SEQUEL TO MOTOR COLLISION. Dominion Special Service. .Palmerston North, August 2. The hearing of the case in which Audrey Brooke-Taylor, of Bainesse, claimed damages amounting to £1039 18s. 3d. from the Wellington Express Company, was concluded before His Honour, Mr. Justice Smith, in the Palmerston North Supreme Court to-day. After a retirement of about an hour the jury returned a verdict for plaintiff, assessing the damage at £330 3s. 9d. Judgment was entered accordingly. Plaintiff was injured in a collision between a motor-lorry driven by an employee of the defendant firm, and a motor car in which she was a passenger. She made the claim for damages alleging negligence on the part of the lorry-driver. In his summing-up, His Honour said that the collision occurred in broad daylight on a good road. The drivers sighted each other at a distance of about 150 yards, And it seemed extraordinary that the accident should occur.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 264, 3 August 1929, Page 6
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155DAMAGES AWARDED Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 264, 3 August 1929, Page 6
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