SEQUEL TO COLLISION
JURY AWARDS DAMAGES OBJECTION BY * DEFENCE [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON, Thursday A seaman named John Cameron, commonly known as John Brown, was awarded £940 damages in the Supreme Court to-day in a claim against Elsie Edith Brenkley, owner of a motortruck, and Evan Critchley Brenkley, driver. The action arose out of a collision between the plaintiff's motor-cycle and the motor-truck, when Cameron received ,a fractured leg. As the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, was about to enter .judgment, Mr. Parry moved for judgment i'or the defendants. The Chief Justice: On what grounds? Mr. Parry: On grounds that the jury could not have brought in a verdict for tho plaintiff on the evidence before them. Tho Chief Justice: That means a new trial. Your submission is against my direction to tho jury. Mr. Parry said he was not prepared to plead his reasons at that stage, and the Chief Justice granted him until Tuesday next to place a motion before the Court.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22117, 24 May 1935, Page 14
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