BUS ACCIDENT
INJURIES TO SCHOOLGIRL DAMAGES OF £ISOO AWARDED (Per United Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 8. General damages of £ISOO were awarded to-day to the 10-year-old girl, Elizabeth Mary Trumper, .who was severely injured when the Hawarden School bus crashed into a tree on May 10. The cause of the accident, the jury held, was the negligence of the driver, Alexander Hugh Millar. The plaintiff sued through her father, Angus Llewellyn Trumper, a farm manager, of Hawarden, the general damages claimed being £3OOO. The defendants were Alexander Hugh Millar, driver of the Hawarden Consolidated School bus at the time of the accident, and Ecroyd's Garage and Transport Company, of Hawarden.
There was no real distinction between negligence and an error of judgment, Mr Justice Northcroft said in summing up. Negligence, indeed, might be described as a degree of error of judgment. " One always . wonders why in these cases it is necessary to bring the evidence of a team of doctors," said the judge. "It might well be considered that sufficient evidence could have been placed before you by the doctor who performed the operation and was in charge of the case. As it was, a team of three doctors was called."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23340, 4 November 1937, Page 8
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201BUS ACCIDENT Otago Daily Times, Issue 23340, 4 November 1937, Page 8
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