No Mental Impression
“How many of us have walked down the street and been told the next day by a friend that we cut his wife dead in the street” asked Mr. Justice Northcroft in the Napier Supreme Court when summing up in a damages claim. “We may have mechanically seen that person yet no mental impression has been made,” His Honour added. “People have the habit, and quite an honest one, of finding what they look for. They may have looked for tracks on the road to show that person was on the wrong side and found those marks. In this instance those who were there and seeing the cycles on the wrong sido of the road, and accepting defendant’s story, may not have seen the marks as they did not look for them.” All shops and most offices in Wairoa were closed yesterday in lieu of Anniversary Day, January 22.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20631, 12 August 1941, Page 4
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152No Mental Impression Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20631, 12 August 1941, Page 4
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