CLAIM FOR DAMAGES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22723, 8 November 1935, Page 19

CLAIM FOR DAMAGES

RESULT OF MOTOR COLLISION (Pee United Press Association) WELLINGTON, November 7. Damages amounting to £2132 13s 6d were claimed by Roy Theodore Edser, hairdresser, of Lower Hutt, in the Supreme Court to-day as the result of a motor collision in which he lost a foot, had seven ribs and his spine fractured, and received a perforated lung, x The collision took place on Easter Monday last on the ramp at Lower Hutt. Edser was driving a motor cycle and sidecar down the ramp when he collided near the bottom with a car driven by Violet Kells, the second defendant in the action. The first defendant was Robert Kells, father of the second defendant and owner of the car. Edser alleged that the accident was due to Miss Kells driving on the wrong side of the road. This was denied by ■the defendants, who alleged that Edser had failed to keep to his correct side of the road. It was admitted, said the plaintiff’s counsel, that Miss Kells was not and never had been the holder of a driver’s licence. Evidence for the defendant was still being heard when the court adjourned till to-morrow.