£1704 DAMAGES AWARD
SEQUEL TO A COLLISION QUESTION OF NEW TRIAL [BY TELEGBAPH —PBESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON, Saturday Damages totalling £1704 were awarded in the Supreme Court to Thomas Walton Robertson, a former post and telegraph linesman, who was injured in an accident on the Rimutaka Hill on February 18, 1935. The defendant was Ling Sing, of Grey town, whose lorry collided with the plaintiff's motor-cycle. The claim was for £384 special and £1750 general damages, the jury awarding the full amount of special and £1320 geenral damages. Leave to apply for a new trial was granted.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22427, 25 May 1936, Page 12
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