LOSS OF AN ARM

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22805, 12 August 1937, Page 12

LOSS OF AN ARM

WOMAN AWARDED £2133 INJURY IN MOTOR ACCIDENT [BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION] WANGANUI, Wednesday A jury in tho Supreme Court at Wanganui to-day, after a retirement of four and a-half hours, awarded £2OOO general damages to Ada Harriotte Cuthbertson, a married woman, of Castlecliff, who lost her left, arm as a result of a motor accident on tho Parapara Road. The ovidenco showed that tho plaintiff was riding in tho cab of a woolladen lorry, which her husband was driving. A car driven by the defendant, Ernest John Whalley, farmer, of Kakatahi, met tho lorry on a bend. It was alleged by the plaintiff that as a result of defendant's car travelling too fast and on tho wrong side the lorry had to leave tho metalled road, became canted and eventually toppled over and she was injured. The defence was that the car was not travelling fast or on the incorrect side and that tho defendant had been unaware of tho accident until long afterward.

In addition to general damages special damages to bo agreed upon between tho plaintiff and tho defendant were allowed. This sum was stated in Court to bo £133. Tho plaintiff had claimed £3OOO general damages, it being pointed out that sho was u left-handed woman and that tho loss of tho loft arm was equivalent to a normal person losing the right arm.