LOSS OF AN EYE
CLAIM AGAINST GOLFER PLAINTIFF’S CASE FAILS. (Per United Press Association) WELLINGTON, February 15. Reserved judgment in favour of the defendant was given by Mr E, Page, S.M., to-day in a claim by Ernest, Edward Edwards against Beatrice Mehaffey for £SOO damages for the loss of an eye caused by a golf ball driven by the defendant striking him on the Manor Park course. ' ‘ ' The magistrate held that the evidence did not disclose any lack of .reasonable oare on the defendant’s part in having failed to notice the plaintiff prior to making her shot.’ When she had made the shot and then caught sight of him, she did her best ( to gave him from injury. The magistrate also held,that the.plaintiff had' not established that even on jthe basis that the defendant had' pr should have seen the plaintiff before playing tho fcbot she was guilty of negligence in failing to warn him before playing."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22498, 16 February 1935, Page 20
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