ACTION FOR DAMAGES
CLAIM AGAINST THE CROWN SUPREME COURT JUDGMENT (Per United Press Association) WELLINGTON, July 19. The necessity for giving explicit notice to the Crown of any claim made against it under the Crown Suits Act was emphasised in a reserved judgment delivered in the Supreme Court to-day by Mr Justice Ostler upon a motion heard before him in Chambers. The immediate effect of the judgment is to deprive George Henry Quin, platelayer, of Wellington, of the right to claim from Majesty the King £2500 damages for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by the negligence of servants of the Crown. On the petition at present filed with the court Quin will have to begin proceedings anew. Quin, through his solicitor, gave notice of his claim in writing to the Solicitorgeneral and also filed a petition in the Supreme Court, but his Honor held that neither the notice nor the petition gave sufficient particulars of the alleged negligence fairly to inform the law officers of the Crown of the charges they would have to meet.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23247, 20 July 1937, Page 7
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177ACTION FOR DAMAGES Otago Daily Times, Issue 23247, 20 July 1937, Page 7
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