PALMERSTON NORTH

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 104, 4 May 1937, Page 4

PALMERSTON NORTH

SESSION

CLAIMS IN MOTOR CASES

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PALMERSTON N., This- Day

With only one criminal case on the calendar, the quarterly sessions of the Supreme Court opened this morning. Mr. Justice Reed, in his charge to the Grand Jury, congratulated the district on its comparative freedom from crime.

A true bill was returned in the case of Frederick Reginald Norman Davis, charged with indecent assault. Comment on the number of civil cases for trial, involving claims for damages arising out of motor collisions aggregating over £10,000 for injuries received by various persons, was made by his Honour. He observed that this class of case was too numerous for the district. Though there were no cases of criminal negligence in the driving of cars, said his Honour, there were unfortunately eight civil claims for damages arising out of alleged negligence. Inquiries had no doubt been made, in the cases and it" had not been thought that the degree of criminal negligence had been such as to justify proceedings. At the same ime it was too large a number for the district. There was no doubt that more care would have to be taken in the management of motor-cars.