CLAIM FOR DAMAGES.
SEQUEL TO MOTOR COLLISION. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, November 4. Concluding evidence was heard by Mr Justice MacGregor and a jury in the Supreme Court to-day in the case in which Robert Bowes Kirkland, a plasterer, of Wellington, claimed damages to the extent of £1167 from John Delacourt Merrett, company manager, and Henry Stanley M'Lucas, a salesman, both of Wellington. The claim arose out a motor accident on the Porirua-Johnstonville road last June when the plaintiff, who was travelling in the defendant M'Lucas’s car, w r as injured by a collision in which the defendant Merrett’s cai; ran into the rear of M'Lucas’s car. The issues were submitted to the jury who were out from 5.45 p.m. until 8.5*5 p.m., and on these judgment was given for £592‘155, with costs in favour of the plaintiff, Kirkland, against the defendant, Merrett, and in favour of the defendant, M'Lucas, with costs.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20866, 5 November 1929, Page 15
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153CLAIM FOR DAMAGES. Otago Daily Times, Issue 20866, 5 November 1929, Page 15
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