DAMAGES AWARDED
Claim Against Chinese By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, May 24. Damages totalling £1704 were awarded in the Supreme Court yesterday to Thomas Walton Robertson, a former Post and Telegraph linesman, who was injured in an accident on the Rimutaka Hill on February 18, 1935. The defendant was Ling Sing, of Greytown, whose lorry collided with the plaintiff's motor-cycle. The claim was for £384 special and £1750 general damages, the jury awarding full amount of special and £1320 general damages. Lewve to apply for a new trial was granted. j
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 136, 25 May 1936, Page 9
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