LEAVE TO APPEAL
a- AWARDING OF DAMAGES io. : ■ ■ __• .■ iy : : .-■'■■ .... .- ■ ■ ■ le The upholding of a jury's verdict by 3S the Court of Appeal after it had been >c reversed by Mr. Justice Northcroft reDf suited in an application being made d- today for conditional leave to appeal to the Privy Council. The action originally was .brought, in r" the Supreme Court by Mrs. Katherine Augusta Godfrey, of Chfistchufch, ** whose; husband was killed in a. North r* Canterbury collision, against- Frank '£ Wayland Gilbert, a storekeeper, of iV Cust. The jury found -the plaintiff's n husband guilty of contributory rieglid gence, but considered. the defendant's a negligence the real cause of the acciv dent, and awarded £1500 damages for I the plaintiff, and £500 for her infant i daughter. Mr. Justice Northcroft, how- - ever, gave judgment for the defend- - ant. On August 14 the Court of Ap- • peal, by a majority verdict, upheld the » appeaj of Mrs. Godfrey against the! 5 reversal of the jury's decision. The I Acting.Chief Justice-(Sir John-Reed) i was the only dissentient from that ■ opinion, cpnsidering that there should be a new trial. • The Court of Appeal today granted ! the application, fixing security af i £500. .■■'"■ i
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 65, 14 September 1936, Page 10
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198LEAVE TO APPEAL Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 65, 14 September 1936, Page 10
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