TWO POINTS OF VIEW

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 33, 8 August 1934, Page 10

TWO POINTS OF VIEW

"FRILLS AND FURBELOWS"

A picturesque simile was adopted in the Supreme Court today by Mr. W. E. Leicester, as counsel for the defence, to impress upon a jury that although a mass of evidence had been given the issues with which they were concerned' were simple. The case, he said, was docked with all the pageantry of the past, and it had almost as many frills arid furbelows as a bathing beauty of 1850. Nevertheless, the main questions were whether it had been established that there was any evidence of negligence on the part of the defendant, whether there was any negligence on the part of the plaintiff, and, thirdly, irrespective of the two other matters, the assessment of damages.

In his address to the jury Mr. E. 11. Boys, counsel for the plaintiff, said that the defence Jiad sought to be facetious "at the expense of the plaintiff. An attempt had been made to laugh the plaintiff's claim out of court. He did not wish to go to the other extreme and' make an impassioned, emotional address, dwelling on tho pain and suffering of tho plaintiff, but tho fact remained that tho plaintiff had been seriously injured and someone was to blame.