INJURED IN TRAIN
CLAIM AGAINST CROWN
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, November 15. In the Supreme. Court today, before Mr. Justice Kennedy and a jury, Thomas Robert Edwin Moss, labourer, Morton Mains; claimed from the Crown £355 special damages arid £1600 general ■ damages for injuries received on October 14, 1936, when he was a passenger in an express between Woodlands and Balclutha. Mr. G. J. Reed, who appeared for plaintiff, said his'client had been preparing to wave to his fiancee: when the train was 'passing through Morton Mains station, and his hand was caught by: the tablet" exchange and severely torn.': By statute, claims in such cases against the Crown' were limited to X2OOO. :--- -;v "■■':.' 7;-:-- '■'■'; '• .'''
After the hearing of evidence for the plaintiff, the .Court adjourned till tomorrow. ';
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 119, 16 November 1937, Page 15
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128INJURED IN TRAIN Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 119, 16 November 1937, Page 15
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