DAMAGES AWARDED

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 40, 16 August 1921, Page 7

DAMAGES AWARDED

ia> awoTTPT TO qmSATTfIVAT &EQUkL 10 SEN&AriOiNAL AtUDiiiMi. „ , . As. a sequel to a sensational happenm Manners-street on tho evening of Isll} December last, Alma Oliver a . JL lerk- io°k ac, hon ]" T tht laSlst'^ s Court to-day> before 1"-?• P.aS c ' S'M'' \° recoveJ' the sum of £200 by way of damages from Charles Joseph Clark . Mr- H' Bnddle appeared for the plam- *&> ,and, defendant whose estate is m the hands of the Pubhc Trustee, was represented by Mr. H. F. 0 Leary. ,Ace? rdm S to the statement of claim, plaintiff sufiered serious physical disabilities as a result of _ being knocked d<>wn by a motor-car driven by the defendant. The claim for £200 was made u& as follows:—Medical expenses, £10;' chemist, £3 10s; loss of salary, £18; value of clothes destroyed, £33 2s; expenses of recuperating trips, £19 13s; general damages, £115 15s. . The majority of the items were admitted by Mr. O'Leary; it was simply a matter, he said, of assessing the general damages. Mr. Page gave judgment for special damages amounting to £41 6s- 4d, and general damages amounting to £60. He »l*o allowed costs amounting to £9 14s 6d..