SUPREME COURT.
CLAIM FOR DAMAGES
lilY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION CHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 16
At the Supreme Court to-day Hugh John Dyke Acland was awarded £750 general damages and £l2O 17s 9d special damages in an action against Peter Wood, a liourmiller, arising out of a collision between plaintiff’s motorcycle and defendant’s motor-car at a street intersection in the city. Plaintiff said the collision wus caused through the defendant giving insufficient warning of his intention to turn. As a result he was kocked over and suffered a compound rracture of both bones of the lert leg above the ankle. Consideration of a nonsuit point that Acland had been travelling at an excessive speed and this in itself was the effective cause of the accident was held over. WOM AN ACQUITTED. AUCKLAND, Feb. 16. Martha Jane O’Shaughnessy, aged 59, charged with unlawfully using nr instrument on a girl aged 19. was found not guilty at the Supreme Conn to-day. The judge (Mr Justice Heed man pointed out that there was no eo.tvoV oration of the girl’s story, and it was for the jury to decide whether on such evidence they would bring in a conviction.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 17 February 1925, Page 5
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192SUPREME COURT. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 17 February 1925, Page 5
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