COLLISION SEQUEL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23040, 18 May 1938, Page 18

COLLISION SEQUEL

INJURIES TO YOUTH COMPROMISE ON DAMAGES DIRECTIONS BY THE COURT [from our own correspondent] HAMILTON. Tuesday A compromise was approved by the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, in the Hamilton Supreme Court to-day in a case in which a youth, William Hayward Blade, aged 19, farm labourer, of Tauwhare, sought to recover £442 damages from John Thomas Andrews, carrier, of Turanga-o-moana, as the result of a collision, in -which plaintiff was injured. It was stated that the plaintiff, for whom Mr. W. J. King appeared, was riding his motor-cycle between Ngarua and Waharoa on the afternoon of July 29, 1937, and when Hearing the Waharoa station he was involved in a collision with defendant's truck. Plaintiff suffered a compound fracture of the right leg and other injuries. He alleged that the accident was due to defendant's negligence. There was no appearance of defendant. Mr. King, for plaintiff, said a compromise had been reached on the basis of a pavment to plaintiff of £284 lis 2d. His Honor approved of the compromise and directed that the money should bo paid to the Public Trustee, to be disposed of in the payment of wages to plaintiff, tho payment of medical and hospital expenses incurred and the costs of the proceedings. He directed that tho balance should be held by tho Public Trustee for tho maintenance and education of x'taintiff.