SEQUEL TO AN ACCIDENT.

Gisborne Times, Volume L, Issue 5137, 1 April 1919, Page 5

SEQUEL TO AN ACCIDENT.

GIRL AWARDED £lB3 DAMAGES

At the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, before Mr- J. S. Barton S.M., Florance Lilian Jackson (Mr Nolan) proceeded against Harold M a £ e Thompson, for the sum of £585 ,°s general damages and £l6 4s special damages. Defendant was not represented and did not appear. John Miller Jackson, father of the plaintiff, and shepherd at the laruheru freezing works, said that on the night of June 29 last. year, three of his children were walking to town in. a direction which would bring them fnto Gladstone road. Witness- saw his daughter Lilian next day in hospitals the result of an accident The injuries consisted of and collarbone and thigh ngured knees and tom ear. 16'- vears old Her teeth had, been affected and had since been removed. She remained in the hospital fo months. The injuries to the collar bon e caused the shoulder to P She was not yet in normal health James Alexander Jackson rncgirl’s brother, and Detective McLeod also gave evidence. +} ie The Magistrate said that absence of amount claimf7 e tfV/wouS sAt lit. to iritooe. The "as ■>«- cordingly adjourned till J P-“-On resuming, Dr. Ross, ot t Hospital gave e y id ®? ce >1 r ® t total S Her girl’s- admission to fractured to the "Sl>t JXj s k £onM .mdmibtedW bave h a e prl"adicial effect on her doubt that defendant had caus a accident. Defcndon have any ent and did not see ht to had representative present. Ine ident . suffered .permanently -by ‘ the a mHe did not see fit to reem e g d ount. Judgment was & spec--03 general damages, with *- , . i«] damans, with cost* amounting £9 8s- '