APPEAL DISMISSED

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 25, 29 July 1927, Page 15

APPEAL DISMISSED

SEQUEL TO COLLISION

An appeal against the decision of Air. J. **• Salmon, S.M., in a case arising out 6£ a collision between two motor-cara on the JiulJs-Wanganui road, in December last came befofe hi§ Honour the Chief Justice (Sir Charles Skerrett) in the Supreme V??Ii J'esterday. • The appellant was B. JUddle, s grocer, of Pctone (Mr. C. A. h. Treadwell), and the respondent was H. G, tfrown, civil servant, of Upper Hutt (Mr. H. 11. Cornish). In his claim in the Petone Magistrate's Court, Brown alleged tliat the defendant, by his negligent driving, forced the plaintiff s car over a bauk and caused injury to his wife and damage to his car. He claimed £95, and the Magistrate entered judgment in his favour for £54, holding that Liddle had driven at an excessive speed. The appeal was brought on the ground that tho decision was wrong in law and in fact.

Alter hearing legal argument, his Honour dismissed the appeul, observing that he was unable to say that the Magistrate was wrong in his conclusion that the detendant had driven at an excessive speed and that the injury to the plaintiff was caused by the defendant's negligence.