CLAIM FOR DAMAGE

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 188, 8 May 1934, Page 11

CLAIM FOR DAMAGE

Motor-car Window Broken by Ball A claim for damage to the rear window of a motor-ear which was struck by a. hockey ball last Saturday week was made by the owner to the Management Committee of the Wellington Hockey Association last night. During the course of a match at Kilbirnie, a player hit a ball out of the ground and it shattered the rear window of a motor-car parked outside the field. In a letter to the association last night, the owner of the car sought to recover 10/-, the cost of repairing his car. He contended that as the ball had been hit over the fence by a hockey player, the association was liable. The upholstery, he said, had been cut by glass splinters, but he would not ask the association to pay for that. Members of the committee debated the question of liability, and it was suggested by several speakers that the City Council should be asked to make good the damage to the car. One member expressed the opinion that the claimant had been asking for trouble by parking where he did, and there could be no liability to the association. Finally it was left in the hands of members of the legal profession on the committee to inquire more fully into the question of liability.