CLAIM FOR £1955
RAILWAY STATION MISHAP MAN WAVING TO FIANCEE TABLET DEVICE INJURES HAND [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION'] INVERCARGILL, Monday In the Supreme Court to-day, before Mr. Justice Kennedy and a jury, Thomas Robert Edwin Moss, labourer, of Morton Mains, claimed from the Crown £350 as special damages and £'l6oo general damages for injuries received on October 1-1, 1936, when he was a passenger in an express between Woodlands and Balelutha.
Mr. G. J. Reed, who appeared for the plaintiff, said that his client had been preparing to wave to his fiancee when a train was passing through the Morton Mains station and his hand was caught by a tablet exchanger and severely torn. By statute claims in such cases against the Crown were limited to £2OOO, said counsel. After hearing evidence for the plaintiff, the Court adjourned until to-mor-row.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22887, 16 November 1937, Page 8
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140CLAIM FOR £1955 New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22887, 16 November 1937, Page 8
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