BRIGHT LIGHT

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 117, 21 May 1925, Page 7

BRIGHT LIGHT

EFFECTS DISCUSSED IN COURT

DAMAGES SOUGHT FOR MOTOR

FATALITY.

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AUCKLAND, 20th May

Further evidence in the motor-car accident case, which occurred at Ngaruawahia on 17th May, 1924, when a widow, Mrs. Evelyn Grace Stevens, was knocked down and fatally injured, was continued at the Supreme Court to-day. The plaintiff, Mrs. Stevens's father, Henry John Saulbrey, as executor and trustee of the will, claimed £1500 from David Douglas Wallace Martin, medical practitioner, of Ngaruawahia, and James Thomas Douce, architect, oj Cambridge.

Hugh Alex. Bagley, optician, Auckland, said that on 30th July, 1923, he examined Mrs. Stevens's eye's and found short-sightedness or obstruction of vision. A certain nervous condition of the retina caused an abhorrence to bright lights. There was a method to relieve this by means of certain lenses. Confusion of vision would result in -a person coming in contact with' a bright light. A person suffering from photophobia would be nervous.

To Mr. Hogben: If the condition was a very bad one it would necessitate going to a doctor. He would not say that photophobia came on suddenly," but gradually. Witness was not prepared' to eiy, however, that if a doctor said photophobia came • suddenly as the result of a sudden shock that he would be prepared to dispute it. The doctor might be wrong and witness might be wrong.. The deceased told witness that she was unable to bear a strong light. The Court adjourned until to-morrow.