£330 DAMAGES

Hokitika Guardian, 11 November 1936, Page 1

£330 DAMAGES

AWARD TO MOTOR VICTIM

(Per Press Association —Copyright)

WELLINGTON', November 10

Compensation amounting to £336 14s was awarded by the jury in the Supreme Court to-day in the case in which the father of Alma Edith Mcnabb, who was killed in a motor-car accident near Lowry Bay, shortly after midnight on August 21, claimed £1,250 daniages. The defendant Was the driver of the car, Lewis Donald Jenriess, engineer of Lower Hutt. In hig snmming up, the Chief Justice described the plaintiff’s claim of £1,250 as “extravagant and abfuird.” Mr W. P. Rollings, for the defendant. said lie would like time to consider the question of making application for a new trial on the grounds that the damages awarded were excessive. Eric Maurice Henderson, a motor mechanic, of Lower Hutt, claimed £419 in the Supreme court, before Mr Justice Blair and a jury,- from Charles Brady, taxi-driver of Lower Hutt for an injury to a lesr allegedly caused by the defendant colliding with his motorcycle. The defence was a denial of the collision, the defendant claiming to have given the plaintiff plenty of room.

A motion bv the defence for a nonsuit was upheld' on the 'ground that negligence had not been proved.