CLAIM FOR DAMAGES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 21 May 1925, Page 6

CLAIM FOR DAMAGES.

SEQUEL TO MOTOR ACCIDENT. (by TELEGRAPH —PRESS 'SSOHIATION. AUCKLAND, May 20. Further evidence in the motor car accident case which occurred at Ngaruawahia on May 17, 192.4, and by which a widow named Mri Evelyn Grave Stevens was knocked down and fatally injured, was continued, in the Supreme Court to-day. The plaintiff, Mrs Stevens’ father, Henry John Saiiibrey, as executor and trustee of the wii?, claimed £ISOO from Da'id Douglas Wallace Martin, medical practitioner, Ngaruawa'liia, and James Thomas Douce, architect, Cambridge. Hugh Alex Bagley, optician, of Auckland, said that on July 1 30, 1923, lie examined Mrs Stevens’ eyes and found short-sightedness or obstruction of vision. A certain nervous condition of the letina. caused, an abhorrence to bright lights. There was a method to relieve this by means of certain lenses. Confusion of vision would result in a person coming in contac; with a bright light. A person- suffering from photophobia would be nervous. To Mr llogben: If the condition was a very bad one, it would necessitate going to a doctor. He would not say photophobia came suddenly, but gradually. Witness was not prepared to say, however, that if a doctor said photophobia came suddenly as a result of a sudden shock he would be prepared to dispute it., The doctor might be wrong, and withess might be wrong. He was not prepared to say. To His Honour: Deceased told witness that she was unable to bear the strong light. The court adjourned till to-morrow.