AWARD OF £203
i DAMAGES FOR EYE INJURY
(By Telegraph—Presa Association.) DUNEDiN, This Day.
~.... Damages amounting to £203 8s were ' awarded John Wilson, teamster, of Balclutha, by a jury in the Supreme Court this morning. He . claimed £600 general damages and £13 3s special damages from Helen Stewart as a re-' suit of a collision between the car in ■which he ■was a passenger and another car driven by the defendant's son. *'.'" Wilson suffered a permanent eye in- _ .jury which, he said, prevented him " "from following his occupation. . Counsel for the defence described the '■ claim as extravagant and exorbitant; {", Mr. Justice Kennedy said the jury :;shbuld look at the. case as fair-minded *wen}«nd should be neither, parsimbni-ißuAiqp-'extrayjgant, ~ |
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 97, 21 October 1936, Page 13
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117AWARD OF £203 Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 97, 21 October 1936, Page 13
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