PAID FOR BEING HURT.
PEDESTRIAN DAMAGES MOTOR-CAR. An extraordinary judgemont was given by the Paris Civil Tribune recently when a pedestrian who was run over by a taxicab was ordered to pay damages. M. Pedro do Florez was crossing a street on Juno 7 last year when a taxicab knocked him down, and then dashed into another automobile belonging to a gentleman named Lefranc. The latter asked the taxicab company to pay him £48 for the damages done to his car. To this demand the company replied by bringing an action against M. de Florez, who, it declared, was entirely responsible for the accident. The company's barrister pleaded that at the moment of the acci dent M. de Florez had stepped'on to the part of the avenue reserved for automobiles, and that he had not taken the trouble to see whether any cars were approaching. The pedestrian argued that he crossed the avenue very carefully, keeping a sharp lookout for any vehicles. The court, however, decided against M. de Florez, and ordered him to pay threequarters of the £48 damages demanded by M. Lefranc and three-quarters of the cost of the judicial action.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15646, 27 June 1914, Page 2 (Supplement)
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193PAID FOR BEING HURT. New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15646, 27 June 1914, Page 2 (Supplement)
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