£2,052 DAMAGES
FARM HAND'S INJURIES [Per United Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, November 4. Damages totalling £2,052 were awarded by a jury on a three-quarters’ majority to Henry Alexander Kay, a farm labourer of Grecndale, at the conclusion of the hearing in the Supreme Court to-day of his claim against Arthur Walter Andrews, of Opawa, a truck driver. The claim, which was for £2,500, arose from a collision between a motor cycle ridden by the plaintiff and a motor truck and trailer driven by the defendant, at the intersection of the Darfield-Burnbam road and the Bealcy road to Hororata. Mr C. S. Thomas, with him Mr E. E. England, appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr D. \V. Russell for the defendant. Negligence on several grounds, among them failure to give way to a vehicle approaching on the right, was alleged by tho plaintiff. It was claimed that because of his injuries ho had been so disabled as to bo made unfit to follow his occupation as teamster or ploughman.
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Evening Star, Issue 22798, 5 November 1937, Page 1
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