CLAIM FOR DAMAGES
AN AUCKLAND. ACCIDENT
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, This Day
As a sequel to an accident in Karangahape Road on Christmas Eve Mrs.' Maria Eccleston, wife of a disabled ex-soldier, • claimed before Mr. Justice Fair and a jury damages totalling approximately £4500 from a motorist, James Killen, farmer, of Matangi, Cambridge.
Counsel for the plaintiff (Mr. Goulding) said that while the plaintiff and her husband were shopping in a crowded thoroughfare the defendant's car, which had been stationary, started and bounded forward on the footpath for about 25 yards, knocking down several people in its track. There was no dispute that the accident was due to defendant's negligence and the only matter for the jury was the assessment of compensation for plaintiff's injuries.
The plaintiff was carried into Court on a stretcher to give evidence. Referring to a compound fracture of the leg, she said she wouldn't go through the experience again for £20,000. The case is proceeding.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 115, 11 November 1935, Page 11
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CLAIM FOR DAMAGES
Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 115, 11 November 1935, Page 11
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