FATAL ACCIDENT
GUILTY OF NEGLIGENCE (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, May 17. Kaspar Gray Webley, city building contractor, aged 38, was found guilty in the Supreme Court of having driven a motor-car negligently along Marshland Road on February 24, thereby causing the death of Joseph Quinn. Webley was remanded for sentence. Mr. Justice Northcroft, in summing up, said that evidence of the accused's consumption of liquor on the day of the accident had been brought by the prosecution, a hotel barman having refused him more drink because he considered he had had enough. It was for the jury to determine whether Webley was in a fit state to drive and it was also for the jury to say whether 60 miles an hour along Marshland Road was a reasonable speed,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 115, 18 May 1938, Page 16
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129FATAL ACCIDENT Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 115, 18 May 1938, Page 16
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