AVIATION LAW SUIT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15521, 31 January 1914, Page 6

AVIATION LAW SUIT.

THE PIONEER ACTION.

Tot ; first • action : for damages. in London arising out •of 4 aeroplanes ■ colliding, : : was heard by the Lord Chief * Justice a few weeks ago. One of the plaintiffs caiaoin oh cratches, aid it. was explained that hia injuries were the result: of -a. 'motor-cycle accident; and when one of the defendants limped into court on two sticks, it was stated that he ■> had been hurt at football. Sir R. Isaacs-remarked, amid " laughter, that they seemed* to be safer :in - the air than on the land. .'""--■*" :.'■■;■ ■:■■■''■'■■-:'£•*%'.

, The plamtifis_were Cecil Lawrence £asbley and Eric Clowes Pashley, trading ■as Pauley and they suetf tie British and Colonial Aeroplane -Comply; Limited, and : Lieutenant Crawford fehr. piann, of the flying school, TBrootlands: for damages for loss they sustained to a Somner biplane through the alleged 5 negligence of pie defendant's servants. aidants denied this > and for damages to a biplane through the Mr. Thome Drury, for the' plaintiffs said the accident occured a t BrooSaS h*st January The plaintiffs wereXown! *%&* biplane which they used to si "a exhibitions and to carry K^eSlfr Si Pashley had token a trip on the biplane, and on alighting, said counsel l» SgS^ 3^^^^^ J&W . th . afc after *« accident one of the defendants' servants, said".'""Tw sorry, f art see why my^pmnV M? I could have prevented the aod&ntH T this was a.pioneer action, and Sift not yet arrived when. tW «,uld «U1 d perts m aeroplane accident. Twhtl f" For the defence, Mr hSk? to V pointed.out that the Bro££s. er ground was the . place w£f A flyifa S learned to fly.. Of Z e^^fa * he Pf°Pie reasonably, and. use .such, skEstf aCfc essed when in cha™ rf »!! **•>»• poss the of' a man learning on the Sit the case from those in which * Vffl\f° md steering on an onen road ' * mau as Lieutenant Kehrmann' eav« «ai after walking to the **!**». aid of sticks* MrT wl£^ ** amounting to £123. ; damages