CLAIM FAILS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 210, 4 August 1934, Page 2

CLAIM FAILS

SEQUEL TO ACCIDENT. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Aug. 3. A case in which a cyclist asked for £1223 damages against a city firm was heard in the Supreme Court this morning, before Mr Justice Johnston and a jury. The plaintiff was Otto August Danliolt, of Christchurch, motor-car painter, and the defendant firm was Charles Begg and Co. The jury’s verdict was for defendant with costs. In answering questions put by His Honour, the jury declared that plaintiff was guilty of negligence and that defendant had not been negligent. In the statement of claim it was alleged that on October 31 plaintiff was cycling east along Oxford Terrace, and as he crossed the Madras Street intersection a delivery van driven by Robert Herman Lloyd, an agent of the defendant company, going north along Madras Street, was so negligently and unskilfully driven that it collided with plaintiff, causing injury and financial loss. The detence was a general denial, with the additional assertion that plaintiff was negligent in that he failed to keep a proper look-out, failed to turn to avoid the impact, and failed to slow down.